| Purple grenadier | |
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| Male inSerengeti National Park | |
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| Female, inSerengeti National Park | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Estrildidae |
| Genus: | Granatina |
| Species: | G. ianthinogaster |
| Binomial name | |
| Granatina ianthinogaster (Reichenow, 1879) | |
Thepurple grenadier (Granatina ianthinogaster) is a common species ofestrildid finch found in easternAfrica.
The length averages 13.3 cm (5.25 in). All ages and sexes have a black tail, and adults have a red bill. The male has a cinnamon-colored head and neck with a blue patch surrounding the eye. The rump is purplish blue and the underparts are violet-blue with variable rufous patches. The female is smaller and mostly cinnamon brown with white barring on the underparts and silver-blue eyepatches. Juveniles are like females, but mostly unbarred tawny-brown with a reddish-brown bill.[2]
The song (in Kenya) is described as "a high, thinchit-cheet tsereea-ee-ee tsit-tsit, orcheerer cheet tsee-tsee sur-chit."[2]
It is found in subtropical and tropical (lowland) dry shrubland inEthiopia,Kenya,Somalia,South Sudan,Tanzania andUganda, an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,500,000 km2. The status of the species is evaluated asLeast Concern.[3]
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