Black-rumped waxbill


The black-rumped waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southern Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,000,000 km2.
It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, United States and Virgin Islands. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Taxonomy

The black-rumped waxbill was first described by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1823, and at the time was placed in the Fringilla genus. When the Estrilda genus was described in 1850, this species was moved there. It was at one point thought to be conspecific with the Arabian waxbill.