Red-billed Firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala)
About the Red-billed Firefinch
The red-billed firefinch or Senegal firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala) is a small seed-eating bird in the family Estrildidae. This is a resident breeding bird in most of Sub-Saharan Africa with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km2. It was introduced to Egypt, but the population there has become extinct. It was also introduced to southern Algeria where it is currently expanding northward.
A real field recording of the Red-billed Firefinch. 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.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Algeria, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 67 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricataprofile
- Bar-breasted FirefinchLagonosticta rufopictaprofile
- Black-bellied FirefinchLagonosticta raraprofile
- Black-faced FirefinchLagonosticta larvataprofile
- Brown FirefinchLagonosticta nitidulaprofile
- Jameson's FirefinchLagonosticta rhodopareiaprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.