🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Black-rumped Waxbill live?

Estrilda troglodytes has 10,533 records in 46 countries and territories, from 1854 to 2026. Most records come from Gambia.

AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesEstrildidaeEstrilda

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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
Gambia 2,766
Nigeria 2,172
Spain 1,135
Senegal 935
Uganda 898
Ghana 810
Guadeloupe 605
Benin 176
Chad 141
United States 131
Burkina Faso 119
Singapore 115
Kenya 113
Cameroon 94
Mali 53
Ethiopia 41
Martinique 38
Niger 38
Mauritania 22
Tanzania 22
South Sudan 19
Guinea 12
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 10
Hong Kong 7
Qatar 7
Sudan 7
Togo 7
Guinea-Bissau 6
Bahrain 4
United Arab Emirates 3
Eritrea 3
Puerto Rico 3
Portugal 3
Sierra Leone 3
Brazil 2
Central African Republic 2
South Africa 2
Canada 1
DR Congo 1
Denmark 1

Showing the top 40 of 46 places.

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