Brown-backed Mannikin

Brown-backed Mannikin

Taxobox
name = Brown-backed Mannikin
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Estrildidae
genus = "Lonchura"
species = "L. nigriceps"
binomial = "Lonchura nigriceps"
binomial_authority = (Cassin, 1852)

The Brown-backed Mannikin or Brown-backed Munia "Lonchura nigriceps" is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa: Angola, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

It is found in moist savanna and subtropical/ tropical lowland moist forest habitat. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

References

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8702&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]


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