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Green-winged Pytilia
Pytilia melba
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About the Green-winged Pytilia
The green-winged pytilia (Pytilia melba) is a small colourful seed-eating bird in the family Estrildidae. It is widespread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, though it is more rarely seen in central, far southern and coastal western parts of the continent.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Pytilia melba
- Family
- Waxbills and Allies
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the waxbills and allies family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
- Blue-capped Cordonbleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Chestnut Munia Lonchura atricapilla
- Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill Estrilda rhodopyga
- Cut-throat Amadina fasciata
- Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata
- Double-barred Finch Stizoptera bichenovii
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