Family: Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Authority: (Peale, 1848)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category

This species has a large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (extent of occurrence <20,000 km² combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The species is suspected to be decreasing but only slowly, it hence does not meet or approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been directly quantified and although it may plausibly be moderately small, it does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Population size: 7000-19999 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 900,000 km²

Country endemic: no