Shelley's Crimson-wing

It is approximately 13 cm long, brightly-coloured terrestrial finch. The male Shelley's Crimson-wing has bright red crown, face and back, with contrasting black wings and tail, as well as olive-yellow underparts with warmer tones on flanks and belly. The female drabber has an olive head and some red on mantle and rump. Both sexes have bright red bills. Its voice is sharp and high-pitched with tit tit tit call. Rising and falling series of high-pitched tu tutu ti ti ti.

The Shelley's Crimson-wing is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

threat to the crimson-wings and Shelley's Crimson-wing is classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN. More

Shelley's Crimson-wing Cryptospiza shelleyi is an endangered species of estrildid finch found in Burundi, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda in sub-saharan Africa. It has shown population decline for the past few decades, which is possibly related to ongoing deforestation. More

threat to the crimson-wings and Shelley's Crimson-wing is classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN. Species list - Red-faced Crimson-wing, Cryptospiza reichenovii - Abyssinian Crimson-wing, Cryptospiza salvadorii - Dusky Crimson-wing, Cryptospiza jacksoni - Shelley's Crimson-wing, Cryptospiza shelleyi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimsonwing The text in this page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article shown in above URL. It is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. More