๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Black-crowned Waxbill live?

Estrilda nonnula has 10,212 records in 14 countries and territories, from 1898 to 2026. Most records come from Uganda.

Black-crowned Waxbill
Black-crowned Waxbill โ€” Tom Tarrant / CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesEstrildidaeEstrilda

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Uganda 4,672
Rwanda 2,578
Cameroon 1,099
Kenya 720
Nigeria 664
DR Congo 284
Equatorial Guinea 84
Burundi 38
Tanzania 28
Central African Republic 22
Gabon 13
Congo 4
Sudan 3
South Sudan 3

Related animals

Others in the family Estrildidae.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.