Waxbills (Estrildidae)
Red-headed Bluebill (Spermophaga ruficapilla) - HBW 15, p. 323
French: Becbleu à tête rouge
German: Rotkopf-Samenknacker
Spanish: Estrilda Piquigorda Cabecirroja
Other common names: Red-billed Bluebill, Red-headed Blue-billed Weaver, Red-headed Forest Weaver, Forest Seedcracker; Usambara Bluebill (cana)
Taxonomy: Spermospiza ruficapilla Shelley, 1888, Bellima, upper Uele district, DRCongo.
May form a superspecies with S. haematina, and sometimes considered conspecific; ranges of the two meet in NE, E & S DRCongo (Uele, Kivu and Kasai), where specimens are intermediate in plumage, but majority of birds are clearly of one or the other species, indicating that the two are distinct. Proposed race kilgoris (described from Kilgoris, in SW Kenya) treated as a synonym of nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- ruficapilla ( Shelley, 1888) - SE Central African Republic, NE, E & S DRCongo, extreme S Sudan, Uganda, W & C Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, W Tanzania and N Angola.
- cana ( Friedmann, 1927) - Usambara Mts, in NE Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A female calling from a branch and then flying away Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp ruficapilla)
Josep del Hoyo 8 September 2006 4 years ago 25 sec 4.6 -
A male in a tree, feeding on fruits Locality Sebitoli, Kibale National Park, Uganda (ssp ruficapilla)
Josep del Hoyo 1 September 2006 4 years ago 19 sec 3.9 -
a few birds,also immature Locality Royal Mile, Budongo Forest, Uganda (ssp ruficapilla)
Daniêl Jimenez 28 September 2010 51 weeks ago 52 sec 3.2 -
male singing inside bush Locality Semliki National Park, Uganda (ssp ruficapilla)
Martin Kennewell 9 June 2004 51 weeks ago 32 sec 3.2
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Male on the ground
Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Ian Hempstead 2 November 2010 35 weeks ago 3.3 -
Single bird in garden near Gorilla-trekking HQ
Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Tom Tarrant 8 January 2006 2 years ago 2
- No sound recordings available yet
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