Jameson's firefinch
Jameson's firefinch | |
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A female in Kruger National Park, South Africa | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Estrildidae |
Genus: | Lagonosticta |
Species: | L. rhodopareia |
Binomial name | |
Lagonosticta rhodopareia (Heuglin, 1868) | |
Jameson's firefinch (Lagonosticta rhodopareia) is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southern Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,600,000 km2.
It is found in Angola, Botswana, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The IUCN has classified the species as being of least concern.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Lagonosticta rhodopareia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.