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Blue-capped cordon-bleu

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Males have blue on the tops of their heads and tend to be more vivid in colour. On female blue-caps the light brown coloration on the wings extends to the nape of the neck and over the top the head. Pairs dance holding twigs in their beaks, and film using a high-speed camera shows partners tapping
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The blue-capped cordon-bleu inhabits the subtropical or tropical (lowland) dry grasslands, shrublands, and deserts of subsaharan Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 390,000 km.
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eating seeds and small insects. Most of this species do not exceed 7.5 cm (3.0 in) in length and are quiet relative to other finches.
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does fairly well in captivity given adequate conditions; however, breeding this finch is said to be quite difficult.
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their feet between twenty-five and fifty times a second, making a buzzing sound.
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Lake Ndutu
Tanzania
Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Estrildidae
Uraeginthus
Binomial name
Richmond
Ethiopia
Kenya
Somalia
South Sudan
Tanzania
East Africa
finch
omnivorous
passerine
"Uraeginthus cyanocephalus"
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
doi
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22719499A132130104.en

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