Grant's bluebill

Grant's bluebill
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Spermophaga
Species: S. poliogenys
Binomial name
Spermophaga poliogenys
(Ogilvie-Grant, 1906)

Grant's bluebill (Spermophaga poliogenys) is a species of estrildid finch found in forests in central Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 350,000 km2.

It is found in the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The IUCN has classified the species as being of least concern.

The common name of this species commemorates the British ornithologist Claude Henry Baxter Grant.

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