Red-billed quelea province in today's Sudan. "Red-billed quelea" has been designated the official name by the International Ornithological Committee (IOC). Other names in English include black-faced dioch, cardinal, common dioch, Latham's weaver-bird, pink-billed weaver, quelea finch, quelea weaver, red-billed dioch, red-billed weaver, Russ' weaver, South-African dioch, Sudan dioch and Uganda dioch. Based on recent DNA analysis, the red-billed quelea is the sister group of a clade that contains both other remaining species of the genus "Quelea", namely the cardinal quelea ("Q. cardinalis") and the red-headed quelea ("Q. erythrops"). The genus belongs to the group of true weavers (subfamily Ploceinae), and is most
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