Quailfinch

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Estrildidae

Genus

Ortygospiza

eBird Code

quailf1

Subspecies (11)

• Ortygospiza atricollis ansorgei

  Guinea-Bissau to Liberia, Ivory Coast, and coastal Ghana

• Ortygospiza atricollis atricollis

  Senegal to Cameroon

• Ortygospiza atricollis digressa

  eastern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini

• Ortygospiza atricollis dorsostriata

  far eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda, Rwanda, and northwestern Tanzania

• Ortygospiza atricollis fuscata

  Angola to southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia

• Ortygospiza atricollis fuscocrissa

  highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea

• Ortygospiza atricollis gabonensis

  Equatorial Guinea to Gabon and central Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo River)

• Ortygospiza atricollis muelleri

  southern Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Angola, to Zambia, western Zimbabwe, and north-central South Africa

• Ortygospiza atricollis pallida

  northern Botswana and adjacent northwestern Zimbabwe

• Ortygospiza atricollis smithersi

  northeastern Zambia

• Ortygospiza atricollis ugandae

  southern Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, and western Kenya