This article is incomplete. This article is missing one or more sections. You can help the BirdForum Opus by expanding it. |
- Odontospiza griseicapilla
Identification
Distribution
Ethiopia to Kenya and Tanzania.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Placed in Lonchura by Dickinson2 and Gill & Wright3; this species has in the past been placed in genus Spermestes with scientific name Spermestes caniceps4 and in genus Lonchura with scientific name Lonchura griseicapilla.
Habitat
Behaviour
References
- Clements JF. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
- Dickinson EC (ed.) 2003. The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. ISBN 9780691117010
- Gill F & Wright M. 2008. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, USA. 2006. ISBN 9780691128276 Update (2008) downloaded from http://worldbirdnames.org/names.html.
- Sibley CG & Monroe BL. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.