Blue Waxbill

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male: face and breast powder-blue
2. Male: rump and flanks powder-blue
3. Upperparts pale brown

Male, female and young

The female is paler than the male, with blue confined to the rump, tail, head and upper breast; the rest of the underparts are pale yellowish-brown.

Voice

It gives a soft “seee-seee”, often repeated while moving through low scrub.

Where and when it's recorded

Blue Waxbill has been recorded at 215 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 15 countries and regions.

Records by month Southern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Kruger NP – Skukuza CampSouth Africa774 records
2. Mkhuze GRSouth Africa597 records
3. Zaagkuildrift RdSouth Africa578 records

Countries and regions with the most records

South AfricaNamibiaZambiaZimbabweBotswanaMozambiqueMalawiTanzania

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The blue waxbill (Uraeginthus angolensis), also called southern blue waxbill, blue-breasted waxbill, southern cordon-bleu, blue-cheeked cordon-bleu, blue-breasted cordon-bleu and Angola cordon-bleu, is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southern Africa. It is also relatively commonly kept as an aviary bird.

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