Grey-headed oliveback

The grey-headed oliveback (Delacourella capistrata), also known as the white-cheeked oliveback, is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 800,000 km2.

Grey-headed oliveback
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Delacourella
Wolters, 1949
Species:
D. capistrata
Binomial name
Delacourella capistrata
(Hartlaub, 1861)

It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo & Uganda. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Origin

Origin and phylogeny has been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.[2] Estrildinae may have originated in India and dispersed thereafter (towards Africa and Pacific Ocean habitats).

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Nesocharis capistrata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Arnaiz-Villena, A; Ruiz-del-Valle V; Gomez-Prieto P; Reguera R; Parga-Lozano C; Serrano-Vela I (2009). "Estrildinae Finches (Aves, Passeriformes) from Africa, South Asia and Australia: a Molecular Phylogeographic Study" (PDF). The Open Ornithology Journal. 2: 29–36. doi:10.2174/1874453200902010029.


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