Bronze Mannikin

What the Bronze Mannikin sounds like

Recorded by Anne Ndung'u · Call · Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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When to see the Bronze Mannikin

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Bronze Mannikin

The map shades 42 countries with regular records, and 3 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 United States, Sudan, Martinique.

About the Bronze Mannikin

The bronze mannikin or bronze munia is a small passerine bird of the Afrotropics. This very social estrildid finch is an uncommon to locally abundant bird in much of Africa south of the Sahara Desert, where it is resident, nomadic or irruptive in mesic savanna or forest margin habitats. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 23,600,000 km2 (9,100,000 sq mi). It is the smallest and most widespread of four munia species on the African mainland, the other being black-and-white, red-backed and magpie mannikin. It co-occurs with the Madagascar mannikin on the Comoro Islands, and was introduced to Puerto Rico.

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Easily confused with

Black-and-white MannikinSpermestes bicolorThe black-and-white mannikin also black-and-white munia or red-backed mannikin, is a species of estrildid finch, widely present throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Magpie MannikinSpermestes fringilloidesThe magpie mannikin or magpie munia is a species of estrildid finch, sparsely present across Sub-Saharan Africa. Grey-headed SilverbillSpermestes griseicapillaThe grey-headed silverbill is a stocky bird with a grey head studded with white dots.