Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
Uraeginthus bengalus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Estrildidae
- Genus
- Uraeginthus
- eBird Code
- reccor
Subspecies (4)
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Uraeginthus bengalus bengalus
Senegal southward to Guinea, eastward to Eritrea, Ethiopia, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Kenya (west of the Rift Valley)
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Uraeginthus bengalus brunneigularis
southern Somalia and Kenya to Tanzania
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Uraeginthus bengalus katangae
far northeastern Angola to southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Zambia
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Uraeginthus bengalus ugogensis
southern Kenya and Tanzania
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.