Waxbills, Munias & Allies

Black-bellied Firefinch

Lagonosticta rara

The Black-bellied Firefinch (Lagonosticta rara) is a 10 g grassland bird that eats mostly seeds. It stays put all year.

Family

Waxbills, Munias & Allies

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

10 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

18

Recorded in Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Central African Rep., Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Togo, United States, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, S. Sudan.

Where to see it: Landa Pozenda (Togo); Biguina 1 - Western farmlands (Benin); Djoubissi (general area) (Central African Republic); Rafai, Mbomou, Central African Republic (Central African Republic); Biguina 1 - Eastern farmlands (Benin).

Photo: (c) Matt Muir, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Matt Muir via iNaturalist