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    (c) Alexander Viduetsky, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) tjeerd, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) carlbodenstaff, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) seasav, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Matti Suopajärvi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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    (c) Frederic Doucet, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Bronze Mannikin

Spermestes cucullata

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About

The bronze mannikin or bronze munia (Lonchura cucullata) is a small passerine (i.e. perching) 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...

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