Bronze Mannikin

Bronze MannikinA small, social bird widespread south of the Sahara. A Southern African account describes flocks feeding on grass seeds in grassy and scrubby places and along woodland edges.What does it look like?The Southern African account describes adults with earth-brown upperparts, a blackish head, face, throat, and upper breast washed with bronze-green, and finely barred flanks.How does it live?A small, social bird widespread south of the Sahara. A Southern African account describes flocks feeding on grass seeds in grassy and scrubby places and along woodland edges.In the Southern African account it uses mixed grass and scrub, woodland edges, coastal scrub, and old cultivated land; flocks climb grass stems to take seeds.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.