African Quailfinch

African Quailfinch

Taxobox
name = African Quailfinch
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Estrildidae
genus = "Ortygospiza"
species = "O. atricollis"
binomial = "Ortygospiza atricollis"
binomial_authority = (Vieillot, 1817)

The African Quailfinch "Ortygospiza atricollis" is a common species of estrildid finch found in almost all parts of AfricaVerify source|date=September 2007 except at far north of Africa.

It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe.Verify source|date=September 2007 The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

References

[http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8666&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]


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