This widespread and abundant species is often found around human habitation, often with other species such as the red-cheeked cordon-bleu.
Its soft queet-queet call is a familiar African sound.
The song is a rising chick-pea-pea-pea.

The red-billed firefinch is a small gregarious bird which feeds mainly on grain and other seeds.
It frequents open grassland and cultivation.
 The nest is a large domed grass structure with a side entrance, built low in a bush, wall or thatch into which three to six white eggs are laid.
The nest of this species is parasitised by the village indigobird.
This widespread and abundant species is often found around human habitation, often with other species such as the red-cheeked cordon-bleu. Its soft queet-queet call is a familiar African sound. The song is a rising chick-pea-pea-pea.
The red-billed firefinch is a small gregarious bird which feeds mainly on grain and other seeds. It frequents open grassland and cultivation.  The nest is a large domed grass structure with a side entrance, built low in a bush, wall or thatch into which three to six white eggs are laid. The nest of this species is parasitised by the village indigobird.
Red-billed firefinch