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The bar-breasted firefinch with a red head and breast and white barring or speckling on the breast. The forehead, lores and supercilium are deep red fading on the ear coverts, chin, throat and neck sides to less intensely red colour. The crown and most of the upperparts are greyish brown and rather uniform contrasting with deep red lower rump and upper tail coverts. Tail is darker brown than back with variable amounts of red near the base. Flight feathers are dark. The underparts below the crimson breast are buffy grey.
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When to see the Bar-breasted Firefinch
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Bar-breasted Firefinch
The map shades 19 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Burkina Faso.
About the Bar-breasted Firefinch
The bar-breasted firefinch is a common species of estrildid finch found in western and central Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,900,000 km².
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Easily confused with
Brown FirefinchLagonosticta nitidulaThe brown firefinch is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southern Africa.
Black-bellied FirefinchLagonosticta raraThe black-bellied firefinch is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa.
Rock FirefinchLagonosticta sanguinodorsalisRock firefinches are sexually dimorphic, where adult males have more brightly colored plumage than adult females.
Side by side: African Firefinch vs Bar-breasted Firefinch
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