Long-tailed Paradise-whydah (Vidua paradisaea)

Other Names (World)
Long-tailed Paradise-whydah, Eastern Paradise-Whydah, East African Paradise Whydah, Eastern Paradise Whydah, African Paradise Whydah, Acacia Paradise Whydah, Long-tailed Paradise Widow, Long-tailed Paradise Whydah

Family
Viduidae (Whydahs And Indigobirds)

Size
38 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

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

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso (B), Cameroon, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

South-eastern Sudan, Ethiopia (absent Ogaden desert and eastern Bale), Somalia (west of 47° east), eastern DRCongo (Ruzizi Valley, in Kivu), eastern Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and from western and southern Angola and southern Zambia east to Malawi and Mozambique and south to central Namibia, central and south-eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and northern and north-eastern South Africa.

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 (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (6)...)

Long-tailed Paradise Whydah (Vidua paradisaea) [XC280833]
by Peter Boesman from Pretoriuskop area, Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga, South Africa (song)

Long-tailed Paradise Whydah (Vidua paradisaea) [XC278217]
by id from Awash National Park, Ethiopia (wing noise)

Subspecies
No 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 Broad-tailed Paradise-whydah (Vidua obtusa), Sahel Paradise-whydah (Vidua orientalis), Exclamatory Paradise-whydah (Vidua interjecta) and Togo Paradise-whydah (Vidua togoensis). Molecular-genetic data indicate that it is sister to Broad-tailed Paradise-whydah (Vidua obtusa) and not closest to Sahel Paradise-whydah (Vidua orientalis).

Occasional hybridization recorded with indigobirds (species undetermined).

References
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