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Red-billed firefinch
Lagonosticta senegala · Family Estrildidae
Lagonosticta senegala
Family Estrildidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Estrildidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 150,782
- Countries and territories with records
- 53
About this species
This species has 150,782 occurrence records from 53 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (32.1%), Kenya (15.7%), Uganda (6.5%), Tanzania (5.6%) and the Gambia (5.5%); together they account for 65.4% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.12% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Lagonosticta senegala combines the genus name Lagonosticta with the species epithet senegala. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Lagonosticta; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Lagonosticta rubricata, Lagonosticta rhodopareia and Lagonosticta nitidula.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 120 species of the family Estrildidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Lonchura punctulata. Its record count is 3.4 times the family average (44,065). The family Estrildidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.