Waxbills and Allies
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Estrildidae
The estrildid finches are small passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They are gregarious and often colonial seed-eaters with short thick but pointed bills. They are all similar in structure and habits, but have a wide variation in plumage colours and pattern. There are 141 species worldwide and 40 species which occur in Nigeria.
- Woodhouse's Antpecker Parmoptila woodhousei
- White-breasted Negrofinch Nigrita fusconota
- Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch Nigrita bicolor
- Pale-fronted Negrofinch Nigrita luteifrons
- Gray-headed Negrofinch Nigrita canicapilla
- Fernando Po Oliveback Nesocharis shelleyi
- Gray-headed Oliveback Nesocharis capistrata
- Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Red-faced Pytilia Pytilia hypogrammica
- Green-backed Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Red-faced Crimson-wing Cryptospiza reichenovii
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- Brown Twinspot Clytospiza monteiri
- Dybowski's Twinspot Euschistospiza dybowskii
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Rock Firefinch Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis (E)
- Black-faced Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata
- Reichenow's Firefinch Lagonosticta umbrinodorsalis
- Red-cheeked Cordonbleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Lavender Waxbill Estrilda caerulescens
- Fawn-breasted Waxbill Estrilda paludicola
- Anambra Waxbill Estrilda poliopareia (E)
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
- Black-headed Waxbill Estrilda atricapilla
- Zebra Waxbill Sporaeginthus subflavus
- Black-faced Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Locustfinch Paludipasser locustella (A)
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullatus
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- Cut-throat Amadina fasciata
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