Common Waxbill

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Estrildidae

Genus

Estrilda

eBird Code

comwax

Vocalizations

Subspecies (15)

• Estrilda astrild adesma

  Uganda to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania

• Estrilda astrild angolensis

  plateau of western Angola

• Estrilda astrild astrild

  western South Africa and southeastern Botswana; introduced Trinidad and Brazil

• Estrilda astrild cavendishi

  Tanzania, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and Malawi to Zimbabwe and Mozambique

• Estrilda astrild damarensis

  Namibia and northwestern Cape Province

• Estrilda astrild jagoensis

  coastal western Angola (Benguela and Moçamedes)

• Estrilda astrild kempi

  Sierra Leone to southern Guinea and Liberia

• Estrilda astrild macmillani

  South Sudan

• Estrilda astrild massaica

  Kenya east of Rift Valley to interior northern Tanzania

• Estrilda astrild minor

  southern Somalia to eastern Kenya, northeastern Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Mafia Island

• Estrilda astrild niediecki

  Angola to southwestern Zambia, northeastern Namibia, northern Botswana, and western Zimbabwe

• Estrilda astrild occidentalis

  Ghana to Central African Republic, middle Congo River, and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo; Bioko

• Estrilda astrild peasei

  Ethiopia

• Estrilda astrild rubriventris

  coastal Gabon and lower southwestern Congo to northwestern Angola

• Estrilda astrild tenebridorsa

  eastern South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini