CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

 Carduelis cucullata – Red Siskin
 
 

 Amandava formosa – Green Avadavat

 Carduelis yarrellii – Yellow-faced Siskin

 Gubernatrix cristata – Yellow Cardinal, Green Cardinal

 Padda oryzivora – Java Rice Bird, Java Sparrow
 Paroaria capitata – Yellow-billed Cardinal
 Paroaria coronata – Red-crested Cardinal
 Poephila cincta cincta – Southern Black-throated Finch, Parson Finch

 Amadina fasciata – Cutthroat Finch, Ribbon Finch
 Amandava subflava – Orange-breasted or Gold-breasted Waxbill
 Amblyospiza albifrons – Grosbeak Weaver, Thick-billed Weaver
 Anaplectes rubriceps – Red-headed Weaver
 Anomalospiza imberbis – Parasitic Weaver, Cuckoo Weaver

 Bubalornis albirostris – White-billed Buffalo Weaver

 Estrilda astrild – Saint Helena Waxbill, Common Waxbill
 Estrilda caerulescens – Lavender Firefinch, Lavender Waxbill
 Estrilda melpoda – Orange-cheeked Waxbill
 Estrilda troglodytes – Red-eared Waxbill, Black-rumped Waxbill
 Euplectes afer – Golden Bishop, Napoleon Weaver
 Euplectes ardens – Red-collared Widowbird or Red-collared Whydah
 Euplectes franciscanus – Orange Weaver, Orange Bishop
 Euplectes hordeaceus – Black-winged Bishop, Fire-crowned Bishop
 Euplectes macrourus – Yellow-mantled Whydah, Yellow-backed Whydah

Lagonosticta rara – Black-bellied Firefinch, Black-bellied Waxbill
Lagonosticta rubricata – African Firefinch, Blue-billed Firefinch
Lagonosticta rufopicta – Bar-breasted Firefinch, Bar-breasted Waxbill
Lagonosticta senegala – Senegal Firefinch, Red-billed Firefinch
Lagonosticta vinacea – Vinaceous Firefinch, Vinaceous Waxbill

Lonchura bicolor – Black-and-white Munia, Black-and-white Mannikin
Lonchura cantans – African Silverbill
Lonchura cucullata – Bronze-winged Mannikin, Bronze Mannikin
Lonchura fringilloides – Magpie Mannikin, Pied Mannikin

Malimbus cassini – Black-throated Malimbe, Cassin’s Malimbe
Malimbus malimbicus – Crested Malimbe
Malimbus nitens – Gray’s Malimbe, Blue-billed Malimbe
Malimbus rubricollis – Red-headed Malimbe, Red-headed Weaver
Malimbus scutatus – Red-vented Malimbe
Mandingoa nitidula – Green-backed Twinspot, Green Twinspot

Nesocharis capistrata – Gray-headed Olive-back, White-cheeked Olive Weaver
Nigrita bicolor – Chestnut-breasted Negrofinch
Nigrita canicapilla – Gray-crowned Negrofinch, Gray-headed Negrofinch
Nigrita fusconota – White-breasted Negrofinch
Nigrita luteifrons – Pale-fronted Negrofinch

Ortygospiza atricollis – African Quailfinch

Pachyphantes superciliosus – Compact Weaver
Parmoptila rubrifrons – Red-fronted Antpecker, Jameson’s Antpecker
Passer griseus – Gray-headed Sparrow
Petronia dentata – Bush Sparrow, Bush Petronia
Pholidornis rushiae – Tit-hylia
Plocepasser superciliosus – Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver
Ploceus albinucha – White-naped Weaver, Maxwell’s Black Weaver
Ploceus aurantius – Orange Weaver
Ploceus cucullatus – Village Weaver, Spot-backed Weaver
Ploceus heuglini – Heuglin’s Masked-Weaver
Ploceus luteolus – Little Weaver
Ploceus melanocephalus – Black-headed Weaver, Yellow-backed Weaver
Ploceus nigerrimus – Vieillot’s Black Weaver
Ploceus nigricollis – Black-necked Weaver
Ploceus pelzelni – Slender-billed Weaver
Ploceus preussi – Preuss’s Weaver, Yellow-capped or Golden-backed Weaver
Ploceus tricolor – Yellow-mantled Weaver
Ploceus vitellinus – Vitelline Masked-Weaver
Pyrenestes ostrinus – Black-bellied Seedcracker
Pytilia hypogrammica – Red-faced Pytilia, Yellow-winged Pytilia
Pytilia phoenicoptera – Aurora Finch, Crimson-winged or Red-winged Pytilia

Quelea erythrops – Red-headed Quelea, Red-headed Dioch

Serinus canicapillus – West African Seedeater
Serinus leucopygius – White-rumped Seedeater, Gray Singing Finch
Serinus mozambicus – Yellow-fronted Canary, Green Singing Finch
Spermophaga haematina – Western Bluebill, Blue-billed Weaver
Sporopipes frontalis – Speckle-fronted Weaver, Scaly-fronted Weaver

Uraeginthus bengalus – Red-cheeked Cordonbleu, Cordonbleu

Vidua chalybeata – Green or Village Indigobird, Senegal Combassou
Vidua interjecta – Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah
Vidua larvaticola – Baka Indigobird
Vidua macroura – Pin-tailed Whydah
Vidua orientalis – Northern Paradise-Whydah
Vidua raricola – Jambandu Indigobird
Vidua togoensis – Togo Paradise-Whydah
Vidua wilsoni – Pale-winged Indigobird, Wilson’s Indigobird
 

Note 1:  Most of the finches in Appendix III were listed by Ghana and include some of the commonest birds in Africa.  As Ghana was completely within its rights under the Convention to list these birds that are native to its own habitats, other nations are required under the Convention to support the restriction in trade in these species.  These birds were listed in 1975, and a quarter of a century of reflection on the damage Ghana has done to the legitimate conserva-tion aims of the Convention has not resulted in the removal of a single finch from this Appendix.  In considering that it took our own United States Government over a century to repeal a telephone tax that was passed to finance the Spanish-American war, it is highly unlikely that Ghana will ever remove any of the species it has placed on this listing. 

Note 2:  The Red-eared Firetail, Emblema oculata, found in Australia, was placed on Appendix II in 1979, but was deleted from the listing in 1987. 
 

Compiled by
Robert G. Black
3520 Brook Street, Apt #13
Lafayette, CA  94549-4324