The grey-headed nigrita (''Nigrita canicapillus'') is a common species of
estrildid finch
Estrildidae, or estrildid finches, is a family of small seed-eating passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They comprise species commonly known as munias, mannikins, firefinches, parrotfinches and waxbills. Despite the word "fi ...
found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 3,700,000 km
2.
It is widespread throughout the
African tropical rainforest.
The status of the species is evaluated as
Least Concern
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...
.
References
BirdLife Species Factsheet
grey-headed nigrita
The grey-headed nigrita (''Nigrita canicapillus'') is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 3,700,000 km2.
It is widespread throughout the African tropical rainforest.
The ...
grey-headed nigrita
The grey-headed nigrita (''Nigrita canicapillus'') is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 3,700,000 km2.
It is widespread throughout the African tropical rainforest.
The ...
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