Grey-headed Nigrita

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Estrildidae

Genus

Nigrita

eBird Code

gyhneg1

Subspecies (6)

• Nigrita canicapillus angolensis

  southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo to northwestern Angola

• Nigrita canicapillus candidus

  Mount Kungwe (western Tanzania)

• Nigrita canicapillus canicapillus

  southern Nigeria to Gabon, lower and middle Republic of the Congo, and western Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Nigrita canicapillus diabolicus

  central Kenya to northern Tanzania

• Nigrita canicapillus emiliae

  Guinea and Sierra Leone to Ghana and Togo

• Nigrita canicapillus schistaceus

  far southern South Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania