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Topic Categories: Birding • Education • Mystery Birds • Photography • Teaching • Travel
Posted on: July 18, 2009 9:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: Swee Waxbill, Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Estrilda melanotis, identify this bird, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Yellow-bellied Waxbill, also known as the Swee Waxbill, Estrilda melanotis, photographed on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Comments
Using my trusty Sinclair & Ryan Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, I think this bird is a Yellow-bellied Waxbill (East African Swee), Coccopygia quartinia. It has a bicolored, conical bill (black on top, red below), red uppertail coverts and base of upper tail, olive-ish back and wings, plain gray face, head, and throat, and (vaguely in this case) yellowish belly. The other similarly colored waxbills are found in southern Africa.
Posted by: Rob | July 18, 2009 4:09 PM
And it's a gorgeous bird.
Posted by: Rob | July 18, 2009 4:18 PM