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Passeriformes / Ploceidae / Malimbus

Red-headed Malimbe

Malimbus rubricollis

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (rehmal1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Malimbus

Subspecies (5)

Malimbus rubricollis bartletti

western Guinea to Togo
Malimbus rubricollis nigeriae

Benin to southern Nigeria (east to Niger delta)
Malimbus rubricollis praedi

Angola (Uige, Cuanza Norte, and Cuanza Sul)
Malimbus rubricollis rubricollis

southeastern Nigeria eastward to southern South Sudan, Uganda, and western Kenya
Malimbus rubricollis rufovelatus

Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (rehmal1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.