Blue-billed malimbe

Blue-billed malimbe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Malimbus
Species: M. nitens
Binomial name
Malimbus nitens
(Gray, 1831)

The blue-billed malimbe or Gray's malimbe (Malimbus nitens) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.

It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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