Green-winged Pytilia

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Estrildidae

Genus

Pytilia

eBird Code

grwpyt1

Subspecies (8)

• Pytilia melba belli

  western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western Tanzania

• Pytilia melba citerior

  southern Mauritania southward to Guinea-Bissau, eastward to southern Sudan, western South Sudan, and northwestern Ethiopia

• Pytilia melba grotei

  eastern Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, and Zanzibar

• Pytilia melba hygrophila

  northern Zambia and northern Malawi

• Pytilia melba jessei

  northeastern Sudan to Eritrea and northwestern Somalia

• Pytilia melba melba

  Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo to southwestern Tanzania, western Malawi, and South Africa

• Pytilia melba percivali

  central and southwestern Kenya to northern and central Tanzania

• Pytilia melba soudanensis

  southeastern South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, northern and eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania