Yellow-bellied Waxbill

Coccopygia quartinia

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsShrublandDomed nestTiny · 7 g

When to see the Yellow-bellied Waxbill

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

Where to see the Yellow-bellied Waxbill

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 1 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 South Sudan.

About the Yellow-bellied Waxbill

The yellow-bellied waxbill is a species of estrildid finch native to East Africa. The bird is now named yellow-bellied swee.

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Easily confused with

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