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Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Sekercioglu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34: 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.

Clement, P., Harris, A. and Davis, J. 1999. Finches and sparrows. Christopher Helm, London.

Donald, P.F., Fernando, E., Brown, L., Busana, M., Butchart, S.H.M., Chng, S., Colina, A.d.l., Ferreira, J.M., Jain, A., Jones, V.R., Lapido, R., Malsch, K., McDougall, A., Muccio, C., Nguyen, D., Outhwaite, W., Petrovan, S.O., Stafford, C., Sutherland, W.J., Tallowin, O. & Safford, R. 2024 (in press). Assessing the global prevalence of wild birds in trade.

Fry, C.H. and Keith, S. 2004. The birds of Africa, Vol. VII. Christopher Helm, London.

Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International. 2022. Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 7. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v7_Dec22.zip.

IUCN. 2024. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 22 October 2024).

Olsson, U. and Alström, P. 2020. A comprehensive phylogeny and taxonomic evaluation of the waxbills (Aves: Estrildidae). Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 146: 106757.

Stevenson, T. and Fanshawe, J. 2002. Field guide to the birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi. T & A D Poyser Ltd, London.

Wolters, H.E. (1985). 1985. Species limits in some Afrotropical Estrildidae (Aves: Passeriformes). In: Schuchmann, K.L. (ed.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on African Vertebrates: Systematics, Phylogeny and Evolutionary Ecology., pp. 425– 432.

Zimmerman, D.A., Turner, D.A. and Pearson, D.J. 1996. Birds of Kenya and northern Tanzania. Helm, London.

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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Black-faced Waxbill Brunhilda erythronotos. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/black-faced-waxbill-brunhilda-erythronotos on 26/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 26/12/2024.