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References

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• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79
• Birchenough, A., G. Douglas, S. Evans. 2003. Assessing the distribution of estrildid finches on Vanuatu using local knowledge. Bird Conservation International, 13: 29-44.
• BirdLife International 2009. Estrilda astrild
• Burton, M., R. Burton. 2002. The Wildlife Encyclopedia. Tarrtown, New York, USA: Marshall Cavendish Corporation.
• Cottrell, G., J. Greenway, E. Mayr, R. Paynter, J. Peters, M. Traylor, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology. 1987. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge: Havard University Press.
• Gill, Frank, and Minturn Wright. 2006. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. ix + 259
• Kunkel, P. 1967. Displays Facilitating Sociability in Waxbills of the Genera Estrilda and Lagonosticta (Fam. Estrildidae). Behaviour, Vol 29 No 2/4: 237-261.
• Lack, P.   (2010).  The African Bird Club checklist of African birds: Passerines.  
• Moulton, M., D. Ferris. 1991. Summer diets of some introduced Hawaiian finches. The Wilson Bulletin, 103 (2): 286-292.
• Oren, D., N. Smith. 1981. Notes on the Status of the Common African Waxbill in Amazonia. Wilson Ornithological Society, Vol. 93, No. 2: 281-282.
• Reino, L. 2005. Variation partitioning for range expansion of an introduced species: the common waxbill Estrilda astrild in Portugal. Journal of Ornithology, Vol 146 No 4: 377-382.
• Reino, L., J. Moya-Larano, A. Claudio Heitor. 2008. Using survival regression to study patterns of expansion of invasive species: will the common waxbill expand with global warming?. Ecography, Vol.32, Issue 2: 237-246.
• Reino, L., T. Silva. 1998. The distribution and expansion of the common waxbill (Estrilda astrild) in the Iberian Peninsula. Biological Conservation Fauna, 102: 163-167.
• Schluter, D., R. Repasky. 1991. Worldwide Limitation of Finch Densities by Food and Other Factors. Ecology, 72, No 5: 1763 - 1774.
• Schuetz, J. 2004. Common waxbills use carnivore scat to reduce the risk of nest predation. Behavioral Ecology, Vol 16 no 1: 133-137.
• Schuetz, J. 2004. Reduced growth but not survival of chicks with altered gape patterns: implications for the evolution of nestling similarity in a parasitic finch. Animal Behaviour, 70, issue 4: 839-848.
• Silva, T., L. Reino, R. Borralho. 2002. A model for range expansion of an introduced species: the common waxbill Estrilda astrild in Portugal. Diversity and Distributions, 8: 319-326.