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title: "Common Waxbill"
description: "Estrilda astrild — Uccelli. The common waxbill (Estrilda astrild), also known as the St Helena waxbill, is a small passerine bird belonging to the estrildid finch family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/common-waxbill
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Waxbill

> Estrilda astrild — Uccelli. The common waxbill (Estrilda astrild), also known as the St Helena waxbill, is a small passerine bird belonging to the estrildid finch family.

- Scientific name: *Estrilda astrild*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `zoo` (Zoo e animali domestici), `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 13757
- Wikidata: [Q583220](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q583220)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13770](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13770)

## Names

- en: Common Waxbill
- de: Wellenastrild
- es: Pico de coral
- fr: Astrild ondulé
- pt: Bico-de-lacre-comum
- pl: Astryld falisty

## Countries with the most observations

US (2815), ZA (2694), BR (2113), PT (1947), ES (1684), SG (175), NA (157), KE (146), MQ (143), NC (122), MU (121), PF (109)

## Summary

The common waxbill (Estrilda astrild), also known as the St Helena waxbill, is a small passerine bird belonging to the estrildid finch family. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa but has been introduced to many other regions of the world and now has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km2. It is popular and easy to keep in captivity.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_waxbill

## Photo

![Common Waxbill](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-waxbill/medium.jpg)

Photo: Francisco Lelis · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/331920971

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-waxbill?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).