Bridle Astrild [1] ( lat. Estrilda rhodopyga ) is a bird in the family of finch weavers of the order Passeriformes .
| Bridle Astrild |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infrastructure : | Passerida |
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| International scientific name |
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Estrilda rhodopyga ( Sundevall , 1850 ) |
| Security status |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22719562 |
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The body length is about 11 cm. There are three geographical forms, slightly differing in the color of plumage. The most common is the northern form. The female of this form differs from the male in light yellow-brown cheeks and throat, which are white in the male. In the male, the top of the head and the rest of the upper body are gray-brown with thin brown transverse stripes. The wing and primary wing coverts on the outside of the fan have a red canvas. The frenum and strip passing through the eye are dark brown. The cheeks and throat are white, the rest of the lower body is light yellow with thin brown transverse stripes that extend to the light brown lower tail coverts. Steering blackish with a red border at the ends. The edges of the beak and the base of the mandible are red, the iris is brown.
In birds of the second (central) form, the plumage is somewhat lighter. Birds of the southern form are a cross between the northern and central forms.
Birds of the northern form live from the central regions of Sudan east to Eritrea and from the northern regions of Ethiopia south to Lake Abaya. Birds of the central form are common in Rwanda , Burundi , in the greater territory of Kenya and in northern Tanzania .
Inhabit grassy and dry shrub steppes , are found on the banks of rivers, in parks and gardens . Usually kept in pairs, only in the inter-nesting period they gather in small flocks or join other species.
The male’s song is unpretentious; during the flights it publishes “piidir-pidipidir” continuously. Their invocation and warning signals vary little and are sounds; "Ture", tjak "or" tsetse ".
Spherical nests with lateral notch (50-60 cm in diameter.). The building material is reed leaves, dry grass and plant fibers. With pleasure, they settle in the empty nests of other species of Astrilidae. The female lays 4-6 white eggs. Hatching, in which both parents take part, lasts 12 days. The hatched chicks have pink skin, covered with a rare thin gray fluff.
For the first time in Europe, yellow-bellied astrildes were introduced in 1917 .
- Estrilda rhodopyga rhodopyga (Sundevall, 1850)
- Estrilda rhodopyga centralis ( Kothe , 1911 )
- Estrilda rhodopyga frommi (Kothe)
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 442. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- Zherdev E.S. The Feathered Rainbow: A Reference Guide. - M.: Forestry, 1988. - S. 72-74. - ISBN 5-7120-0084-9
