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title: "Bronze Mannikin"
description: "Spermestes cucullata — Vogels. The bronze mannikin or bronze munia (Spermestes cucullata) is a small passerine (i.e."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/bronze-mannikin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Bronze Mannikin

> Spermestes cucullata — Vogels. The bronze mannikin or bronze munia (Spermestes cucullata) is a small passerine (i.e.

- Scientific name: *Spermestes cucullata*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `savanna` (Savanne)
- iNaturalist observations: 5927
- Wikidata: [Q28847333](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28847333)
- iNaturalist taxon: [367700](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/367700)

## Names

- en: Bronze Mannikin
- de: Kleinelsterchen
- es: Diablito
- fr: Capucin nonnette

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (2647), TZ (252), KE (249), UG (248), GM (239), PR (217), BJ (210), ZW (170), GH (124), ZM (124), RW (89), MW (84)

## Summary

The bronze mannikin or bronze munia (Spermestes cucullata) is a small passerine (i.e. perching) bird of the Afrotropics. This very social estrildid finch is an uncommon to locally abundant bird in much of Africa south of the Sahara Desert, where it is resident, nomadic or irruptive in mesic savanna or forest margin habitats. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 23,600,000 km2 (9,100,000 sq mi). It is the smallest and most widespread of four munia species on the African mainland, the other being black-and-white, red-backed and magpie mannikin. It co-occurs with the Madagascar mannikin on the Comoro Islands…

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

## Photo

![Bronze Mannikin](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bronze-mannikin/medium.jpg)

Photo: Allan Harris · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325555648

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bronze-mannikin?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).