West African Seedeater

When to see the West African Seedeater

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the West African Seedeater

The map shades 6 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 Kenya, Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire.

About the West African Seedeater

The West African seedeater is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, southern Mali and northern Ivory Coast across to southern Niger and northern Cameroon, with a disjunct population in South Sudan, Uganda and neighboring areas.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-browed SeedeaterCrithagra whytiiThe yellow-browed seedeater is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. Ankober SerinCrithagra ankoberensisThe Ankober serin is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. Yellow-throated SeedeaterCrithagra flavigulaThe yellow-throated seedeater is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.