Grant's Bluebill

Grant's Bluebill

Taxobox
name = Grant's Bluebill
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Estrildidae
genus = "Spermophaga"
species = "S. poliogenys"
binomial = "Spermophaga poliogenys"
binomial_authority = (Ogilvie-Grant, 1906)

The Grant's Bluebill ("Spermophaga poliogenys") is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 350,000 km².

It is found in the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

The common name of this species commemorates the British ornithologist Claude Henry Baxter Grant.

References

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8620&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]


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