Common Waxbill
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Common Waxbill

Estrilda astrild

Overview

Kruger National Park, Garden Route National Park and uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park are among thirteen atlas places where the Common Waxbill is recorded. Records concentrate most in South Africa, Portugal and the United States, followed by Spain and Brazil. The atlas holds about 278,000 records of this bird across thirteen countries, and the map shows where these observations gather.

Seasons for recording the Common Waxbill differ by region, and each place page shows the months where it is documented locally.

Records
278,448
Countries
13
Atlas places
13
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Common Waxbill as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 94856 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Portugal
    25 km zone · high confidence · 77589 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • United States
    25 km zone · high confidence · 42497 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Spain
    25 km zone · high confidence · 33084 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Brazil
    25 km zone · high confidence · 18829 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Namibia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 4312 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zimbabwe
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2099 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1962 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Singapore
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1322 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Trinidad & Tobago
    25 km zone · high confidence · 820 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Common Waxbill