Avibase: Pytilia afra (Orange-winged Pytilia)

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Orange-winged Pytilia

Pytilia afra (Gmelin, JF 1789)

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Partial list of sound recordings available from xeno-canto & macaulaylibrary.org.

Species name	Recordist	Date	Location	Remarks	Cat.nr.
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Thibaut Chansac	2014-07-25	Manyoni, Singida, Singida (Tanzania) (1400 m)	call - bird-seen:yes playback-used:no	200765 xeno-canto.org
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Frank Lambert	2015-11-26	Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, southern access road, Central Region, Lilongwe (Malawi) (1200 m)	flight call - Calls on ground and after flushing off ground bird-seen:yes playback-used:no	298429 xeno-canto.org
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Tim Boucher	2026-03-20	, Southern (Zambia)	-	653134681 macaulaylibrary.org
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Frank Lambert	2015-11-26	Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, southern access road, Central Region, Lilongwe (Malawi) (1200 m)	flight call - Calls after flushing off ground bird-seen:yes playback-used:no	298428 xeno-canto.org
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Linda R. Macaulay	2002-10-06	Road to Kilosa from Mukumi National Park, Tanzania, Tanzania (Tanzania)	-	135985 macaulaylibrary.org
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Linda R. Macaulay	13-Jan-96	Awash National Park - North Side Of Park, Ethiopia, Ethiopia (Ethiopia)	-	100304 macaulaylibrary.org
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Adrian Hinkle	2024-04-20	, Eastern (former) (Kenya)	-	617831645 macaulaylibrary.org
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Boniface James	2026-05-01	, Mpanda (Tanzania)	-	657049920 macaulaylibrary.org
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Gabriel Jamie	2021-12-14	Auto selected -14.67977, 24.18198, Western, Zambia, Kaoma (Zambia)	-	436524591 macaulaylibrary.org
Orange-winged Pytilia - Pytilia afra	Tim Boucher	2026-03-16	, Southern (Zambia)	-	653083955 macaulaylibrary.org

Xeno-Canto: all recordings are copyrighted by their recordists and appear here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

Macaulay Library recordings appear here under the Macaulay Library Terms of Use.