Orange Cheeked Waxbills

A tiny finch of grassy areas. Key features include the brown back, red rump, orange face, and bright red bill. Found in grasslands, forest clearings, and thickets. Call include a high, thin squeaking “zwee” and a snappy ‘chi-de-chi’. Song is a sort and truncated series of whistles. Native to Africa; introduced to Japan, Spain, the Hawaiian Islands, and parts of the Caribbean.

The orange-cheeked waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch native to western and central Africa, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 3,600,000 km