Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Variable Indigobird*
Id (Atlas):
Vidua funerea
Description (10 )
Variable Indigobird
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Other Names (World)
Dusky Indigobird, Variable Indigobird, African Firefinch Indigobird, African Firefinch Widowfinch, Brown-backed Firefinch Indigobird, Brown-backed Firefinch Widowfinch, Black Indigobird
Family
Viduidae (Whydahs And Indigobirds)
Size
10 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Tarragon, 1847)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, lowland dry grassland, arable land, plantations.
Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Guinea-bissau, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)... )
Listen to XC449457
Dusky Indigobird (Vidua funerea ) [XC449457 ]
by Tim Cockcroft from Matutu\u00edne District, Maputo Province, Mozambique (song)
Listen to XC212710
Dusky Indigobird (Vidua funerea ) [XC212710 ]
by Alan Collett from Kerio Valley, Kenya (song)
Subspecies
Vidua funerea (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Variable Indigobird (Vidua funerea ) and Quailfinch Indigobird (Vidua nigeriae ) following Payne and Payne (1994), and Variable Indigobird (Vidua funerea ) and Cameroon Indigobird (Vidua camerunensis ) following Payne (2004).
Thought to form a superspecies with Purple Indigobird (Vidua purpurascens ). Has been treated as conspecific with Purple Indigobird (Vidua purpurascens ). Formerly considered conspecific with Village Indigobird (Vidua chalybeata ). Has been treated as conspecific with Pale-winged Indigobird (Vidua wilsoni ), Quailfinch Indigobird (Vidua nigeriae ), Cameroon Indigobird (Vidua camerunensis ) and Green Indigobird (Vidua codringtoni ).
Interbreeds with Village Indigobird (Vidua chalybeata ) in E DRCongo and with Purple Indigobird (Vidua purpurascens ) in SE DRCongo. Subspecies nigerrima has sometimes been treated as a full species.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
funerea (Tarragon, 1847) - Northern and eastern South Africa, Swaziland and extreme southern Mozambique (south of R Limpopo).
nigerrima (Sharpe, 1871) - Western Kenya, Tanzania, southern and south-eastern DRCongo, northern Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique (except extreme south) and eastern Zimbabwe.
References
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Files:
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