Purple Grenadier

Purple Grenadier

Taxobox
name = Purple Grenadier


image_caption = Captive adult male
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Estrildidae
genus = "Uraeginthus"
species = "U. ianthinogaster"
binomial = "Uraeginthus ianthinogaster"
binomial_authority = Reichenow, 1879

The Purple Grenadier ("Uraeginthus ianthinogaster") is a common species of estrildid finch found in eastern Africa.

Description

The length averages 13.3 cm (5.25 in). All ages and sexes have a black tail, and adults have a red bill. The male has a cinnamon-colored head and neck with a blue patch surrounding the eye. The rump is purplish blue and the underparts are violet-blue with variable rufous patches. The female is smaller and mostly cinnamon brown with white barring on the underparts and silver-blue eyepatches. Juveniles are like females, but mostly unbarred tawny-brown with a reddish-brown bill.cite book | last = Zimmerman | first = Dale A. | coauthors = Turner, Donald A.; Pearson, David J. | year = 1999 | title = Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania | publisher = Princeton University Press | pages = pp. 254–255, 553 | id = ISBN 0-69101022-9 | url = http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691010226/ | accessdate = 2007-06-07]

The song (in Kenya) is described as "a high, thin "chit-cheet tsereea-ee-ee tsit-tsit", or "cheerer cheet tsee-tsee sur-chit"."

Range and habitat

It is found in subtropical and tropical (lowland) dry shrubland in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,500,000 km². The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern. [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=53297|title=Uraeginthus ianthinogaster|downloaded=07 June 2007 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern.]

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