Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus)
About the Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
The red-cheeked cordon-bleu or red-cheeked cordonbleu (Uraeginthus bengalus) is a small passerine bird in the family Estrildidae. This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in drier regions of tropical Sub-Saharan Africa. Red-cheeked cordon-bleu has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 7,700,000 km2.
A real field recording of the Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
Listen
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 Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 80 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Blue WaxbillUraeginthus angolensisprofile
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleuUraeginthus cyanocephalusprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.