Orange-breasted Waxbill

How to identify

Field marks

1. Breast orange, bill red
2. Plumage dark olive
3. Male: supercilium and rump red
4. Male: dark barring on the pale flanks

Male, female and young

The female is smaller and duller than the male and lacks his red supercilium.

Where and when it's recorded

Orange-breasted Waxbill has been recorded at 161 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 26 countries and regions.

Records by month Southern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Marievale Bird SanctuarySouth Africa307 records
2. Nairobi NPKenya128 records
3. Suikerbosrand NRSouth Africa119 records

Countries and regions with the most records

South AfricaSenegalZimbabweKenyaMozambiqueZambiaTanzaniaUganda

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 orange-breasted waxbill (Amandava subflava), also known as the zebra waxbill, is a small (approximately 9 cm long) sparrow-like bird with a reddish iris, orange breast, red bill and dark olive-green plumage. The male has a red rump, dark bars on the whitish flank and a scarlet eyebrow stripe. The female is duller and smaller than male; it also lacks the male's red eyebrow.

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