Bronze mannikin (Spermestes cucullata)

Wikipedia: Bronze mannikin Source: OTHER 1200px-Bronze_Mannikin_%288568589949%29%2C_crop.jpg
Classification: Genus Spermestes; Subfamily Estrildinae; Family Estrildidae
This bird appears across the great seas in the following continents: North America, Africa.
General: The bronze mannikin or bronze munia (Spermestes cucullata) is a small passerine (i.e. perching) bird of the Afrotropics. This very social estrildid finch is an uncommon to locally abundant bird in much of Africa south of the Sahara Desert, where it is resident, nomadic or irruptive in mesic savanna or forest margin habitats.^[5][6] It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 8,100,000 km². It is the smallest and most widespread of four munia species on the African mainland, the other being black-and-white, red-backed and magpie mannikin. It co-occurs with the Madagascan mannikin on the Comoro Islands, and was introduced to Puerto Rico. Especially in the West Africa, it is considered a pest in grain and rice fields. It is locally trapped for the pet bird trade.^[4] [more]

🔍 No documented observation