Biology:Jameson's firefinch

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Short description: Species of bird

Jameson's firefinch
Female Jamesons Firefinch (Lagonosticta rhodopareia).jpg
A female in Kruger National Park, South Africa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
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 Sub-Saharan 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, Eswatini, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The IUCN has classified the species as being of least concern.

Male

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1077362 entry