Common Waxbill (Estrilda astrild)
About the Common Waxbill
The common waxbill (Estrilda astrild), also known as the St Helena waxbill, is a small passerine bird belonging to the estrildid finch family. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa but has been introduced to many other regions of the world and now has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km2. It is popular and easy to keep in captivity.
A real field recording of the Common Waxbill. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Brazil, Cameroon, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Kenya and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 362 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Abyssinian WaxbillEstrilda ochrogasterprofile
- Arabian WaxbillEstrilda rufibarbaprofile
- Black-crowned WaxbillEstrilda nonnulaprofile
- Black-rumped WaxbillEstrilda troglodytesprofile
- Crimson-rumped WaxbillEstrilda rhodopygaprofile
- Fawn-breasted WaxbillEstrilda paludicolaprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.