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Black-throated Firefinch (Lagonosticta larvata) - Wiki
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Black-throated Firefinch
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Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
[Photo] Black-faced Firefinch or Vinaceous Firefinch, Lagonosticta larvata vinacea. Source: Bird stamps from Mali, 1978. URL: www.birdtheme.org/country/mali.html
The Black-throated Firefinch (Lagonosticta larvata) is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,100,000 km².
It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, C??te d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo and Uganda. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Lagonosticta vinacea was a separate species, but findings by Dowsett and Forbes-Watson in 1993 led to reassigning of the Lagonosticta vinacea species as a population under Lagonosticta larvata.
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