Straw-tailed Whydah (Vidua fischeri)

Other Names (World)
Straw-tailed Whydah, Straw-tailed Widow, Fischer's Whydah

Family
Viduidae (Whydahs And Indigobirds)

Size
31 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Reichenow, 1882)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, subarctic grassland.

Range (Guide)

Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Extreme southern Sudan (eastern side of Dongotona Mts, eastern side of Didinga Mts, Kapoeta and Kenyan border), Ethiopia, Somalia, north-eastern Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (dry central plateau from Serengeti and Masai steppe south to Tabora, Morogoro and Iringa region).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

Straw-tailed Whydah (Vidua fischeri) [XC536669]
by isaac kilusu from Gwassi Foothills West, Homa Bay County, Kenya (song)

Straw-tailed Whydah (Vidua fischeri) [XC300885]
by James Bradley from South of Yabello, Ethiopia (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Along with Shaft-tailed Whydah (Vidua regia) sometimes placed together in a separate genus Tetraenura. They have been thought to form a superspecies.

References
See References.

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