#cordon-bleu

[best-bird-tournament]

Estrildidae family - round 1, section 2

Which is the best bird?

Sunda zebra finch

Red-headed bluebill

Red-cheeked cordon-bleu

Violet-eared waxbill

Red avadavat

Gouldian finch

White-collared oliveback

Green-backed twinspot

Cut-throat finch

Voting ended onDec 6, 2025

[typhlonectes]

Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus)

This cheeky bird lives in parts of central and eastern Africa, such as Cameroon and Ethiopia, where it inhabits savannas and grasslands. It spends much of its day hopping about, foraging for seeds or grains. Both males and females come in shades of blue and brown, but only adult males have red patches on their cheeks.

Photo: Sergey Pisarevskiy, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr

via: American Museum of Natural History

[namu-the-orca]

After humans, what’s the hardest thing to make? Right, animations. So: BORB TIME. A long while ago (let’s call it three years, because it was actually three years) I had this idea for a series of little animations featuring different bird species, to practice animating and spread some African birdlife love. Needless to say, the project stranded after the first animation. But new year new me so high time to pick up the original idea. Meet this red-cheeked cordon bleu who’s trying very hard to pick up an acacia flower, but is also perpetually distracted by something. He’ll get it the ninety-night time... maybe.

[best-bird-tournament]

Genus Uraeginthus

Which is the best bird?

Blue waxbill

Red-cheeked cordon-bleu

Blue-capped cordon-bleu

Voting ended onJun 18, 2025

[menubot]

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[john-smoke]

[birdsoftheuniverse-blog]

الكوردون الازرق احمر الخدين موضوع شامل عن هذا العصفور الجميل - طيور العرب

:الكوردون الازرق احمر الخدين Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu الكوردون الازرق احمر الخدين من بين العصافير الجميلة جدا لبراري افريقيا و الذي يتميز لونه الازرق ستجد في هذا الموضوع جميع المعلومات حول طائر الكوردون الازرق احمر الخدين من غداء كيفية التربية و التفريق بين الدكر و الانثى و صولا لطرق الانتاج و مستلزماته صور شمعية

[birdstudies]

June 5, 2016 - Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu, Crimson-cheeked Blue Waxbill, or Red-cheeked Blue Waxbill (Uraeginthus bengalus)

These estrildid finches are found across much of central Africa and have been introduced to Hawaii. They eat grass seeds, termites, and moth larvae, foraging mostly on the ground. Males and females both perform courtship displays, singing, bobbing, and stepping quickly while perched near their partners. The steps are so fast that they are not visible to humans at actual speed and were only discovered when researchers took high-speed videos of the birds displaying.