Lavender Waxbill

When to see the Lavender Waxbill

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 Lavender Waxbill

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 2 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, Spain.

About the Lavender Waxbill

The lavender waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch native to Central Africa and successfully introduced on Hawaiʻi. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 620,000 km2 (240,000 sq mi).

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Easily confused with

Grey WaxbillGlaucestrilda perreiniThe grey waxbill or black-tailed waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch found in wetter land of Southern Africa. Cinderella WaxbillGlaucestrilda thomensisThe Cinderella waxbill is a near-threatened species of estrildid finch found in drier regions of southwestern Angola around the Namibe Province, north and east to the southwest of the Huíla Province and north to Fazenda do Cuito in Huambo, and also in the extreme northwestern part of Namibia.