Cuckoo-finch
Anomalospiza imberbis(Cabanis, JL, 1868)
English (US) Cuckoo-finch
The Cuckoo-finch (Anomalospiza imberbis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Viduidae (Whydahs and Indigobirds) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: patchily distributed Sierra Leone and southern Mali eastward to Ethiopia and southward to Angola and eastern South AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Anomalospiza imberbis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Cuckoo-finch
- Described by
- (Cabanis, JL, 1868)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Crithagra imberbis
- Described by
- (Cabanis, JL, 1868)
- Type locality
- East Africa = Mombasa, cf. Grant and Mackworth-Praed, 1945, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., 66, p. 9.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 16, no.96 p.412
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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