CORDON BLEU
(Uraeginthus angolensis)
di Enzo Patanč
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Scientific name: Uraeginthus angolensis
Italian name: Astrilde blu
It's a species much similar the red check
cordon blue with which it shares the life habits. Often it comes
imported with to cordon blue because of the fact that the areas
of dissemination are overlapped above all provoking confusion
between the females that are much similar in the two species.
DISTRIBUTION
Sāo Tomé, Cabinda, Congo, sud
of Zaire, north of Angola and Zimbabwe and north-west of Zambia.
E' disseminated in smaller way regarding the
" cousins " Red cheecked Cordon - blue but as this last
is not difficult to view while feed to the edges of the villages.
DESCRIPTION
It's a long bird around to
12.5 - 13 cm. The livery of the male is much similar to that of
red cheeked cordon blue, the advanced part of the chest and of
the flanks and the tail they are of a beautiful tonality of blue,
the advanced parts are tawny and belly are chamois color.
It lacks the red spot on the
cheek. The female have the blue parts less extended and than tonality
more faded. The young are similar the females but they have the
spout completely dark.
MAINTENANCE AND FEEDING
It needs of the same cures of the red cheecked
cordon blue.
