Waxbills (Estrildidae)
Black-bellied Seedcracker (Pyrenestes ostrinus) - HBW 15, p. 322
French: Pyréneste ponceau
German: Purpurastrild
Spanish: Estrilda Piquigorda Ventrinegra
Other common names: Savanna/Notch-billed Seedcracker; Rothschild's Seedcracker ("rothschildi"); Urungu Seedcracker ("frommi"); Large-billed Seedcracker ("maximus")
Taxonomy: Loxia ostrina Vieillot, 1805, India and Africa = southern Gabon coast.
May form a superspecies with P. minor and P. sanguineus, and the three sometimes treated as conspecific. Several races have been proposed, on basis of differences mainly in general size and in bill size and shape, e.g. relatively small rothschildi (described from Niger Delta, in Nigeria), larger and larger-billed frommi (from Kitungulu, in SW Tanzania), and still larger and huge-billed maximus (from Faradje, in NE DRCongo); individuals of each type, however, can be found together in some geographical areas, and they interbreed (pairing behaviour independent .. View all taxonomy...
May form a superspecies with P. minor and P. sanguineus, and the three sometimes treated as conspecific. Several races have been proposed, on basis of differences mainly in general size and in bill size and shape, e.g. relatively small rothschildi (described from Niger Delta, in Nigeria), larger and larger-billed frommi (from Kitungulu, in SW Tanzania), and still larger and huge-billed maximus (from Faradje, in NE DRCongo); individuals of each type, however, can be found together in some geographical areas, and they interbreed (pairing behaviour independent of bill-size morph); in addition, intermediates occur, and nestlings of pairs of each size morph are identical in mouth colour and pattern. Treated as monotypic.
Distribution: Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and W & S Cameroon E to Central African Republic, SW Chad, extreme SE Sudan, Uganda and extreme W Kenya, S to N Angola, Zambia and SW Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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male singing inside bush Locality Semliki National Park, Uganda
Martin Kennewell 9 June 2004 2 years ago 32 sec 3.6 -
male bringing nesting material to nest (bottom left), female visits briefly (empty billed!) Locality Ankasa-Nini National Park, Western Region, Ghana (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 12 December 2010 1 year ago 26 sec 3.2
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Adult male perched
Locality Limbe, Southwest Province, Cameroon (Monotypic species)
Nik Borrow 23 March 2012 1 year ago 4.3 -
Adult male perching
Locality Kribi, South Province, Cameroon
Marco Valentini 10 January 2011 2 years ago 3.8
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