Jameson's firefinch

Jameson's firefinch
A female in Kruger National Park, South Africa
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Estrildidae
Genus:	Lagonosticta
Species:	L. rhodopareia
Binomial name
Lagonosticta rhodopareia (Heuglin, 1868)

Jameson's firefinch (Lagonosticta rhodopareia) is a common species of estrildid finch found in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,600,000 km².

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, South Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The IUCN has classified the species as being of least concern. It is named after James Sligo Jameson.^[2]

• BirdLife International species factsheet
• Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds

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