Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu

Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Uraeginthus
Species: U. angolensis
Binomial name
Uraeginthus angolensis
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Blue-breasted Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus angolensis (also called a Blue Waxbill) is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southern Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 3,600,000 km².

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

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