Sahel Paradise-whydah (Vidua orientalis)

Other Names (World)
Sahel Paradise-whydah, Northern Paradise-Whydah, Sahel Paradise Whydah, Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah(!)

Family
Viduidae (Whydahs And Indigobirds)

Size
12.50 - 36.60 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Heuglin, 1870)

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Burkina Faso (B), Chad (B), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia (B), Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Mali (B), Mauritania (B), Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan (B).

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

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

Sahel Paradise Whydah (Vidua orientalis) [XC436008]
by id from Lac Tanma, Thies, Senegal (song)

Sahel Paradise Whydah (Vidua orientalis) [XC447375]
by Bram Piot from Parc du W, Tillab\u00e9ri Region, Niger (flight call)

Subspecies
Long-tailed Paradise-whydah (Vidua paradisaea) and Sahel Paradise-whydah (Vidua orientalis) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Vidua paradisaea following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Formerly considered conspecific with Long-tailed Paradise-whydah (Vidua paradisaea), Broad-tailed Paradise-whydah (Vidua obtusa), Exclamatory Paradise-whydah (Vidua interjecta) and Togo Paradise-whydah (Vidua togoensis). More recently treated as conspecific with Long-tailed Paradise-whydah (Vidua paradisaea) alone, but molecular-genetic data indicate that it is sister to Exclamatory Paradise-whydah (Vidua interjecta) and Togo Paradise-whydah (Vidua togoensis). Certain specimens in tattered plumage from eastern Sudan and Eritrea suggest interbreeding between present species and Long-tailed Paradise-whydah (Vidua paradisaea).

In Sudan, proposed subspecies kudugliensis (described from Kadugli, in southern Kordofan) and nilotica (from c. 16 km above Abu Zor, in Blue Nile) are synonyms of nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

aucupum (Neumann, 1908) - Southern Mauritania, Senegal, northern Gambia and southern Mali east to southern Niger and northern Nigeria.
orientalis (Heuglin, 1870) - Northern Cameroon, southern Chad, northern Central African Republic, south-central Sudan, northern Eritrea and north-western Ethiopia.

References
See References.

Files:

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