Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia
(aka Yellow-bellied Swee)
Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2016 - click for larger image

Ethiopia
January 2016

The Yellow-bellied Waxbill is distributed in the east of Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found on grassland, scrub and forest edges at between 900 and 2,750 metres.
Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Harenna Forest, Ethiopia, January 2016 - click for larger image The adult has a two tone bill of black and red while the immature, seen here in photo 3, has an all black bill.
Yellow-bellied Waxbill, Harenna Forest, Ethiopia, January 2016 - click for larger image
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