#firefinch

[herpsandbirds]

Red-billed Firefinches (Lagonosticta senegala), L - female, R - male, family Estrildidae, Makasutu Forest, The Gambia

photograph by Mark Searle

[best-bird-tournament]

Estrildidae family - round 1, section 1

Which is the best bird?

Long-tailed finch

Brown firefinch

Red-throated twinspot

Dybowski's twinspot

Green-winged pytilia

Crimson seedcracker

Jameson's antpecker

Grey-headed oliveback

Quailfinch

Brown twinspot

Voting ended onDec 5, 2025

[birdstudies]

August 26, 2024 - Black-bellied Firefinch (Lagonosticta rara) Found across central Africa, these estrildid finches live in savannas, grasslands, shrublands, and overgrown cultivation. Foraging on the ground in pairs and small flocks, often with related species, they eat grass seeds as well as small ants and termites. They build loose ball-shaped nests from grass, leaves, stems, and rootlets in grass clumps, shrubs, low trees, or building thatch. Females lay clutches of three or four eggs.

[burkh4rt]

[todaysbird]

the african firefinch is a small, brightly colored finch found throughout almost the entire continent of africa. both sexes are similar, but females have duller coloration and more brown on the body. male firefinches build the nest, then the parents work together to incubate & rear the young. the african firefinch mainly feeds on seeds foraged on the ground, but they supplement their diet with insects. x

[mudpuddling-moved]

red-billed firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala) in Zakouma, Chad

[typhlonectes]

African firefinch (Lagonosticta rubricata) male, Sakania, The Democratic Republic of the Congo 

photograph by Nigel Voaden | Wikimedia CC

[herpsandbirds]

Black-faced Firefinch (Lagonosticta larvata), family Estrildidae, order Passeriformes, The Gambia

photograph by Ron Verdonk