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The magpie mannikin or magpie munia (''Spermestes fringilloides'') is a species of 
BirdLife Species Factsheet
Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
magpie mannikin Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa magpie mannikin {{Estrildidae-stub
estrildid finch
Estrildidae, or estrildid finches, is a family (taxonomy), family of small seed-eating passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They comprise species commonly known as munias, mannikins, firefinches, parrotfinches and waxbills.
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, sparsely present across Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the list of sovereign states and ...
. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,400,000 km2.
It is found in subtropical/ tropical (lowland) moist shrubland, forest and dry grassland habitat. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern
A least-concern species is a species that has been evaluated and categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wil ...
.
References
BirdLife Species Factsheet
External links
* Magpie mannikinSpecies text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
magpie mannikin Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa magpie mannikin {{Estrildidae-stub