DE: Bandamadine, NL: Bandamadine (Bandvink), FR: Amadine cou-coupé,
ES: Capuchino de Garganta Cortada, IT: Amadina golatagliata, PT: Estrilda degolada,
DK: Båndfinke, SW: Rödstrupig amadin, NO: Blodstrupeamadin, FI: Viiltopeippo,
PL: Amadyna obrozna, CZ: Amadina páskovaná, HU: Szalagpinty, TR: Kesikboyun
Amadina fasciata
Amadina fasciata fasciata
Amadina f. alexanderi (incl. candida)
Amadina f. contigua
Amadina f. meridionalis
Origin: Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon. Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique, South-Africa, Zimbabwe en D.R. Congo (Zaire).
Length: 12-13 cm
Cutthroat Finch (male)
Cutthroat Finch (female)
Food: They predominantly eat grass seeds, and sometimes insects, especially termites.
Cutthroat Finches are monogamous, i.e. a pair once formed stays together. After the breeding period, they join to form large flocks and live in social communities, often in the company of the Red-headed Finch. Old birds often keep aside from the flock, as pairs. The birds are often found near drinking places.