Orange-breasted Waxbill

Amandava subflava (Vieillot, 1819) — also called Zebra Waxbill, Gold-breasted Waxbill, Goldbreast. Occurrence records of the Orange-breasted Waxbill are shared on GBIF from around 7 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all OPM Prozesky Bird Sanctuary (470 records), in 3 provinces.

IUCN: Least concernEstrildidae

7reserves with records

696records around them

3provinces

LCIUCN category

Orange-breasted Waxbill (Amandava subflava) — Photo: Johan Spaedtke aka Spade · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
OPM Prozesky Bird SanctuaryWildlife sanctuary	NW North West	470
Marais DamNature reserve	GP Gauteng	107
Ingula Nature ReserveNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	84
Modderfontein ReserveNature reserve	GP Gauteng	15
De Onderstepoort Private Nature ReserveNature reserve	GP Gauteng	14
Olifantsvlei Nature ReserveNature reserve	GP Gauteng	3
Ann van Dyk Cheetah CentreWildlife sanctuary	NW North West	3

By province

Gauteng: 4 reserves
North West: 2 reserves
KwaZulu-Natal: 1 reserve

Taxonomy

Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Scientific name: Amandava subflava
GBIF taxon: 2493697
Wikidata: Q775649

More of the Estrildidae family

Common Waxbill Blue Waxbill Bronze Mannikin Swee Waxbill African Firefinch Green-winged Pytilia Jameson's Firefinch Red-billed Firefinch Red-headed Finch Violet-eared Waxbill Black-and-white Mannikin Cut-throat Finch Black-faced Quail-Finch Black-faced Waxbill Pink-throated Twinspot Green Twinspot Grey Waxbill

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.