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Blue waxbill
Uraeginthus angolensis · Family Estrildidae
Uraeginthus angolensis
Family Estrildidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Estrildidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 231,419
- Countries and territories with records
- 23
About this species
This species has 231,419 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (69.4%), Zimbabwe (7.7%), Namibia (6.1%), Botswana (5.4%) and Zambia (4.9%); together they account for 93.5% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Uraeginthus angolensis combines the genus name Uraeginthus with the species epithet angolensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Uraeginthus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Uraeginthus bengalus and Uraeginthus cyanocephalus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 120 species of the family Estrildidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Lonchura punctulata. Its record count is 5.3 times the family average (44,065). The family Estrildidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.