Bronze Mannikin
Spermestes cucullata
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Waxbills and Allies
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Call and song
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About the Bronze Mannikin
A tiny gregarious species of savannahs, weedy fields, scrub, and agricultural lands; often found in flocks of dozens to hundreds. Note the adult’s glossy black head, bronzy-brown back, barred rump and vent, and bicolored black and blue-gray bill. Juveniles are uniformly dull brown with a dark bill and are almost always in the company of adults. Vocalizations include a quick squeaky “djip” or “djup” sometimes given as a rapid twitter.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 44 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- DR Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mayotte
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Puerto Rico
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- United States
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
