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When to see the Fawn-breasted Waxbill
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Fawn-breasted Waxbill
The map shades 13 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Fawn-breasted Waxbill
The fawn-breasted waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch found in central Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,800,000 km2. Estrilda paludicola, E. ochrogaster and E. poliopareia have been lumped into E. paludicola.
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Easily confused with
Crimson-rumped WaxbillEstrilda rhodopygaThe crimson-rumped waxbill also known as rosy-rumped waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch found in eastern Africa.
Arabian WaxbillEstrilda rufibarbaThe Arabian waxbill is a highly sociable species of estrildid finch native to Yemen and south-western Saudi Arabia.
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