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Amandava amandava · Family Estrildidae
Amandava amandava
Family Estrildidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Estrildidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 117,971
- Countries and territories with records
- 88
About this species
This species has 117,971 occurrence records from 88 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (66.5%), Spain (12.7%), the United States (5.4%), Thailand (5.1%) and Nepal (1.3%); together they account for 90.9% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.13% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Amandava amandava combines the genus name Amandava with the species epithet amandava. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Amandava: Amandava subflava.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 120 species of the family Estrildidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Lonchura punctulata. Its record count is 2.7 times the family average (44,065). The family Estrildidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.