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White-fronted wattle-eye

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ1922939 ↗
Source-derived summary

The white-fronted wattle-eye (Platysteira albifrons) is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae.

It is endemic to Angola.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

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This entry incorporates text from “White-fronted wattle-eye” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.