#purple grenadier

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Purple Grenadier in Naro Moru

📸 by @kenyanbirder

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Purple Grenadier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQXKqYJ3pQ

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Beauty of The Nature by asifsherazi

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Purple Grenadier (Uraeginthus ianthinogaster) - photo by Sergey Yeliseev

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Purple Grenadier (Granatina ianthinogaster)

Distribution: Eastern Africa

IUCN Status: Least Concern

{ Ecology } { Vocalizations } { eBird }

(Photo by Sergey Yeliseev // CC 2.0)

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Purple Grenadier (Uraeginthus ianthinogaster) - photo by Francesco Veronesi

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(Uraeginthus ianthinogaster) Purple Grenadier

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Purple Grenadier - Uraeginthus ianthinogaster | ©Mike Barth  (Kenya)

Uraeginthus ianthinogaster (Passeriformes - Estrildidae), better known as Purple Grenadier, is an African species found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda [1].

The Purple Grenadier is a dark chestnut brown bird with red beak, black tail, and deep purplish blue rump. Male has purplish-blue feathers around the eyes, and purplish-blue breast, belly, and flanks. Female has less extensive (sometimes absent) blue feathering on the face, and often has white feathers around the eyes; female's breast and belly is spotted or barred white [2].