Bronze Mannikin (Spermestes cucullata)
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About Bronze Mannikin (Spermestes cucullata)
- Kingdom: Animals
- Phylum: Chordates
- Class: Birds
- Order: Perching Birds
- Family: Old World Sparrows
The bronze mannikin or bronze munia is a small passerine bird of the Afrotropics. This very social estrildid finch is an uncommon to locally abundant bird in much of Africa south of the Sahara Desert, where it is resident, nomadic or irruptive in mesic savanna or forest margin habitats. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 8,100,000 km2. It is the smallest and most widespread of four munia species on the African mainland, the other being black-and-white, red-backed and magpie mannikin. It co-occurs with the Madagascar mannikin on the Comoro Islands, and was introduced to Puerto Rico. Especially in the West Africa, it is considered a pest in grain and rice fields. It is locally trapped for the pet bird trade.
Source: Wikipedia
Visits
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2003-02-17
Bazaruto Islands National Park, Mozambique -
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2011-01-06
Lake Awasa, Ethiopia -
2013-10-24
Nairobi National Park, Kenya -
2013-11-06
Kitale - Eldoret Road, Kenya -
2016-01-02
Ceiba, United States of America -
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2017-01-01
Mabamba Swamp, Uganda -
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2025-02-03
Mkomazi National Park, Tanzania -
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