Spermestes is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Spermestes is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across Sub-Saharan Africa.
==Taxonomy== The genus Spermestes was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William Swainson to accommodate the bronze mannikin. The name combines the Ancient Greek sperma meaning "seed" and -estēs meaning "-eater".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).