Kenya

 

Green-winged Pytilia

A brightly colored finch...eight
subspecies...may have originated in
India...in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Pytilia melba

(L 5.5")

Near Lake Baringo

30Oct2014

female

flash photo

Pytilia in Greek is the dim. of
grosbeak genus, Pitylus; melba
may be an old German name
for gull(?).

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