Waxbills (Estrildidae)
Black-bellied Firefinch (Lagonosticta rara) - HBW 15, p. 337
French: Amarante à ventre noir
German: Schwarzbauchamarant
Spanish: Amaranta Ventrinegra
Other common names: Black-bellied Waxbill, Black-bibbed Firefinch
Taxonomy: Habropyga rara Antinori, 1864, between White Nile and Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan.
Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- forbesi Neumann, 1908 - SE Senegal, SW Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and N Sierra Leone E to Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.
- rara ( Antinori, 1864) - Cameroon E to S Sudan, NE DRCongo, Uganda and extreme W Kenya.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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on the ground Locality Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp rara)
Daniêl Jimenez 24 September 2010 2 years ago 22 sec 3.4
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A male on a twig
Locality Benoue National Park, Adamawa Province, Cameroon
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 10 February 2012 1 year ago 2.7
- No sound recordings available yet
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