Red-billed Quelea bird informationValues
Conservation statusLC - Least concern
SynonymsBlack-faced Dioch, Black-fronted Dioch, Sudan Dioch, Pink-billed Quelea, Redbilled Quelea, Sudan Quelea, Black-faced Quelea, Red billed Quelea
Old latin name for birdLoxia sanguinirostris, Emberiza quelea
OrderPerching birds / Passeriformes
FamilyWeavers, Widowbirds / Ploceidae
GenusQuelea
Breeding regionAfrica
Breeding subregionwidespread

Red-billed Quelea bird sounds *

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  • 1.
    Call, song, © Bram Piot
    Senegal
  • 2.
    Call, song, © Bram Piot
    Senegal
  • 3.
    Call, © Oscar Campbell
    South Africa
  • 4.
    Call, © Charles Hesse
    South Africa
  • 5.
    Song, © Peter Boesman
    Namibia
  • 6.
    Call, song, © Faansie Peacock
    South Africa
  • 7.
    Call, © Bram Piot
    Senegal
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    Call, © Bram Piot
    Senegal
  • 9.
    Call, © Bram Piot
    Senegal
  • 10.
    Call, flight call, © Derek Solomon
    South Africa
* All sounds were found via Xeno-canto.org API

Related species

Where to see Red-billed Quelea

Red-billed Quelea subspecies (3)

SubspeciesBreeding subregionNonbreeding subregionExtinct
Quelea quelea aethiopicaSudan to Somalia and s to ne Zambia and Tanzania-No
Quelea quelea lathamiiGabon, Congo and Angola to Malawi and Mozambique and s to s South Africa-No
Quelea quelea queleaMauritania, Senegal and Gambia to sc Chad and n Central African Republic-No

Translation

LanguageTranslation
AfrikaansRooibekkwelea
BelarusianЧырванадзюбы ткач
BulgarianЧервеноклюна куела, Червеноклюн тъкач
Catalanquelea de bec vermell, Teixidor de bec vermell
Chinese红嘴奎利亚雀
Chinese (Traditional)紅嘴奎利亞雀
Croatiancrvenokljuna pletilja, Crvenokljuna kvelea
CzechSnovatec rudozobý, snovač rudozobý
DanishBlodnæbsvæver
DutchRoodbekwever
EsperantoRuĝbeka teksulo
Estonianvilja-kangurlind
Finnishmiljoonakutoja
FrenchTravailleur, Quéléa, Travailleur à bec rouge, Quéléa à bec rouge
FrisianReadbekwever
GalicianBico de carmín, Quelea de bico vermello
GermanBlutschnabel-Weber, Blutschnabelweber
GreekΚoκκιvόραμφoς υφαvτής
HungarianPiroscsörű szövőmadár, piroscsőrű szövőmadár
IcelandicGrímuvefari
IrishFíodóir gobdhearg
ItalianQuelea beccorosso, Quelea
Japaneseコウヨウチョウ
Kazakhқызылтұмсық өргіқұс
LatvianSarkanknābja audējputns
Lithuanianpaprastasis raudonsnapis audėjas, Raudonsnapis audėjas
MacedonianКвелеа
Northern SamiMiljoncihci, Miljongođđinloddi
Norwegianblodnebbvever, Blodnebbvever
Norwegian NynorskBlodnebbvevar
Polishwikłacz czerwonodzioby, wiklacz czerwonodzioby
Portuguesequelea-de-bico-vermelho, Quelea-de-bico-vermelho, Quelea de bico vermelho, queleia-de-bico-vermelho, bico-carmim
RomanianQuelea cu cioc roşu
RussianКвелия, Красноклювая квелия, Красноклювый ткач
SerbianKvelea, Crvenokljuna kvelea
ShonaChimokoto
Slovakpletiarka červenozobá
Slovenianrdečekljuni tkalec
SpanishQuelea común, Quelea de Pico Rojo, Laborioso Quelea
SwahiliKwelea Domo-jekundu
Swedishblodnäbbsvävare
TsongaNdzheyana
TurkishKırmızı Kuela, Kırmızı Gagalı Kuela
Ukrainianквелія червонодзьоба
Uzbekқизил тумшуқли тўқимачи
WelshCwelia picoch