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title: "Amarantka czerwonodzioba"
description: "Lagonosticta senegala — Ptaki. The red-billed firefinch or Senegal firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala) is a small seed-eating bird in the family Estrildidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/red-billed-firefinch
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Amarantka czerwonodzioba

> Lagonosticta senegala — Ptaki. The red-billed firefinch or Senegal firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala) is a small seed-eating bird in the family Estrildidae.

- Scientific name: *Lagonosticta senegala*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Sawanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 5324
- Wikidata: [Q560326](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q560326)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14051](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14051)

## Names

- en: Red-billed Firefinch
- de: Senegal-Amarant
- es: Amaranta Senegalesa
- fr: Amarante du Sénégal
- pt: Peito-de-fogo
- pl: Amarantka czerwonodzioba

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (1153), KE (553), TZ (417), GM (394), ET (249), SN (249), UG (248), BJ (202), ZW (162), ZM (158), BW (152), DZ (148)

## Summary

The red-billed firefinch or Senegal firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala) is a small seed-eating bird in the family Estrildidae. This is a resident breeding bird in most of Sub-Saharan Africa with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km2. It was introduced to Egypt, but the population there has become extinct. It was also introduced to southern Algeria where it is currently expanding northward.

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

## Photo

![Amarantka czerwonodzioba](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-billed-firefinch/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew Deacon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92738910

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-billed-firefinch?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).