Nesocharis is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are found in Africa.
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Nesocharis is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are found in Africa.
==Taxonomy== The genus Nesocharis was introduced in 1903 by the English anthropologist Boyd Alexander with Shelley's oliveback as the type species. The name Nesocharis is a combination of the Ancient Greek nēsos, meaning "island" and kharis, meaning "loveliness". The genus Nesocharis is sister to the waxbills in the genus Coccopygia.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).