Quailfinch

When to see the Quailfinch

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 Quailfinch

The map shades 28 countries with regular records, and 4 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 Mauritania, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Malawi.

About the Quailfinch

The black-faced quailfinch, is a common subspecies of estrildid finch found in western and central of Africa. Some taxonomists consider it to be conspecific with the African quailfinch, others consider all three species to be conspecific.

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Easily confused with

African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricataThe African firefinch is a small red or red and brown species of estrildid finch. Java SparrowPadda oryzivoraThe Java sparrow is about 15 to 17 cm (5.9 to 6.7 in) in length from the beak to its tip of tail feathers. Jameson's FirefinchLagonosticta rhodopareiaJameson's firefinch is a common species of estrildid finch, sparsely spread across sub-Saharan Africa.