White-breasted Nigrita - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by MarcellC
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda, June 2010

Alternative name: White-breasted Negrofinch

Nigrita fusconota

Distribution

Africa
Western Africa: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda
African Islands: Gulf of Guinea Islands, Bioko (Fernando Po)

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

Nigrita fusconotus has two subspecies:

• N. f. fusconotus

• South-eastern Nigeria to Cameroon, Gabon, Angola and western Kenya; Bioko

• N. f. uropygialis

• South-eastern Guinea and Liberia (Mt. Nimba) to southern Ghana and south-western Nigeria

Habitat

Forest edges.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) White-breasted Nigrita. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 10 March 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-breasted_Nigrita

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