Firefinches
Lagonosticta
The firefinches form a genus, Lagonosticta, of small seed-eating African birds in the family Estrildidae.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species
Red-billed Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta senegala
Jameson's Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta rhodopareia
African Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta rubricata
Bar-breasted Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta rufopicta
Brown Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta nitidula
Black-faced Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta larvata
Black-bellied Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta rara
Rock Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta sanguinodorsalis
Mali Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta virata
Chad Firefinch
speciesLagonosticta umbrinodorsalis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 14050.