Cut-throat finch

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Cut-throat finch
Male
Female

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Amadina
Species:
A. fasciata
Binomial name
Amadina fasciata
(Gmelin, JF, 1789)

The cut-throat finch (Amadina fasciata) is a common species of

estrildid finch
found throughout Africa; it is also known as the bearded finch, the ribbon finch, the cut throat, and the weaver finch.

Taxonomy

The cut-throat finch was

locality but in 1805 the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot designated Senegal.[5][6] The cut-throat finch is now placed with the red-headed finch in the genus Amadina that was introduced in 1827 by the English naturalist William Swainson.[7]

Four subspecies are recognised:[7]

  • A. f. fasciata (Gmelin, JF, 1789) – south Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia to Sudan and Uganda
  • A. f. alexanderi Neumann, 1908 – Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia to Kenya and Tanzania
  • A. f. meridionalis Neunzig, 1910 – south Angola and north Namibia to north Mozambique
  • A. f. contigua Clancey, 1970 – south Zimbabwe, south Mozambique and north South Africa

Description

The cut-throat finch has plumage that is pale, sandy brown with flecks of black all over. It has a black-brown tail, a thick white chin and cheeks, and a chestnut brown patch on the belly. The legs are a pink fleshy colour. The adult male has a bright red band across its throat (thus the name "cut throat"), while the male juveniles have a slightly duller red band.

It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 3,300,000 km2. It is found throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the Sahel, eastern and southern parts of the continent.

Breeding

Cut-throat finches usually use nests constructed by other birds . A clutch usually consists of 3 to 6 white eggs, which hatch after an incubation period of 12–13 days.[8] The chicks leave the nest after 21–27 days but continue to be fed by their parents for a further three weeks.[9]

Gallery

  • Pair
    Pair
  • Male
    Male

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22719927A94651784.en
    . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer. p. 859.
  3. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
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  4. ^ Brown, Peter (1776). Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie : contenant cinquante planches enlumineés d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insectes, avec de courtes descriptions systematiques (in French and English). London: B. White. p. 64, Plate 27.
  5. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1805). Histoire naturelle des plus beaux oiseaux chanteurs de la zone torride (in French). Paris: Chez J.E. Gabriel Dufour. p. 90.
  6. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1968). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 14. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 388.
  7. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  8. ^ Mclachlan, G. R.; Liversidge, R. (1978). "821 White-throated Seed-eater". Roberts Birds of South Africa. Illustrated by Lighton, N. C. K.; Newman, K.; Adams, J.; Gronvöld, H (4th ed.). The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. p. 585.
  9. ISBN 978-84-96553-68-2
    .

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