Glaucestrilda

Glaucestrilda is a genus of estrildid finch in the family Estrildidae. The genus is found in Africa.

Glaucestrilda
Lavender waxbill (Glaucestrilda caerulescens)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Estrildidae
Genus:	Glaucestrilda Roberts, 1922

Species

It contains the following species:

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Lavender waxbill	Glaucestrilda caerulescens	Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo
	Grey waxbill	Glaucestrilda perreini	Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia & Zimbabwe.
	Cinderella waxbill	Glaucestrilda thomensis	southwestern Angola around Namibe Province, north and east to southwest Huila Province and north to Fazenda do Cuito in Huambo and extreme northwestern Namibia.

See also

• Birds of Africa
• Estrildidae genera