Birds of the World

○ ← PASSERIFORMES: Estrildidae (Waxbills, Munias & Allies) →

Genus: Estrilda (11 species)


Common Waxbill (Estrilda astrild) Range: AF: w, c, e, s Johannesburg, South Africa
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

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Black-headed Waxbill (Estrilda atricapilla) Range: AF: c


Kandt's Waxbill (Estrilda kandti keniensis) Range: AF: ec DR Congo, w Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and c Kenya Castle Forest Lodge, Kimunye Kirinyaga District, Kerugoya, Kenya
Photograph by Peter R. Steward Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Orange-cheeked Waxbill (Estrilda melpoda) Range: AF: s Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia to s Chad, Central African Republic, se Sudan and Ethiopia, Gabon, n Angola, and DR Congo, w Burundi and n Zambia Butterfly World, Florida,
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

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Black-lored Waxbill (Estrilda nigriloris) Range: AF: sc DR Congo


Black-crowned Waxbill (Estrilda nonnula nonnula) Range: AF: c Kibale NP, Uganda
Photograph by Francesco Veronesi Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Fawn-breasted Waxbill (Estrilda paludicola benguellensis) Range: AF: c, ec Sakania, Democratic Republic of Congo
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Fawn-breasted Waxbill (Estrilda paludicola) Range: AF: c, ec Gibe Valley, Ethiopia
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

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Anambra Waxbill (Estrilda poliopareia) Near Threatened Range: AF: s Benin, s Nigeria

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Crimson-rumped Waxbill (Estrilda rhodopyga) Range: AF: ne, e

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Arabian Waxbill (Estrilda rufibarba) Range: PAL: sw Saudi Arabia and w, c Yemen (sw Arabian Pen.)

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Black-rumped Waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes) Range: AF: Mauritania to Liberia and e to Eritrea, Ethiopia and w Kenya

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