New Hanover mannikin (''Lonchura nigerrima'') is a 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 ...
breeding in
New Hannover. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 20,000 to 50,000 km
2. It is found in subtropical/ tropical (lowland) dry grassland habitat. The New Hanover mannikin has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of
Mottled mannikin.
The status of Mottled mannikin (with New Hanover mannikin included) 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 ...
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References
New Hanover mannikin
New Hanover mannikin
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