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title: "Zebra Finch"
description: "Taeniopygia guttata — Uccelli. The Sunda zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a species of bird in the family Estrildidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/zebra-finch
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Zebra Finch

> Taeniopygia guttata — Uccelli. The Sunda zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a species of bird in the family Estrildidae.

- Scientific name: *Taeniopygia guttata*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 5487
- Wikidata: [Q331065](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331065)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14110](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14110)

## Names

- en: Zebra Finch
- de: Zebrafink
- es: Pinzón cebra
- fr: Diamant mandarin
- pt: Mandarim
- pl: Zeberka timorska

## Countries with the most observations

AU (3132), US (145), ID (132), TL (104), ES (31), FR (23), GB (19), IT (18), DE (16), PT (14), ZA (10), MX (8)

## Summary

The Sunda zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a species of bird in the family Estrildidae. It is found in the Lesser Sundas. For almost two centuries, its closest relative from Australia was generally included in T.guttata as a subspecies; since the 2020s it is generally considered a separate species Taeniopygia castanotis.
Most pre-2020 literature referencing "T.guttata" actually refers to the birds now known as T.castanotis – in particular physiological, neurological and behavioral studies generally used "T.guttata" for the Australian species, because T.guttata sensu stricto was never kept in captivity in significant…

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

## Photo

![Zebra Finch](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/zebra-finch/medium.jpg)

Photo: Marc Guittard · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/360244822

## Machine access

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