Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0

Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus

Status

Category; Not in any BOURC category

Native Range

Sub-Saharan Africa, north of the equator from west to east with a largely cohesive distribution in the west but more broken and scattered in the east.

Conservation Status

Least Concern

British Occurrence

NBN atlas has 2 records as at end 2024. Map Here

Landguard Bird Observatory, Suffolk recorded one on 3rd September 2010

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Sources

https://www.lbo.org.uk/systematic-lists/systematic-list-of-escapes/