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 LC    Pale-winged Indigobird* Id (Atlas):
    Vidua wilsoni

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Wilson's Indigobird, Pale-winged Indigobird, Bar-breasted Firefinch Indigobird, Wilson's Widowfinch

Family
Viduidae (Whydahs And Indigobirds)

Size
11.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartert, 1901)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, dry savanna, arable land, pastureland, urban areas, rural gardens, plantations.

Range (Guide)
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo.

Southern Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, southern Mali, Guinea, northern Ivory Coast, southern Burkina Faso and Ghana east to Nigeria, Cameroon, southern Chad, Central African Republic, southern Sudan (Nimule, Rimo, Sheikh Tombe, Torit), north-eastern DRCongo (Uele), and western Ethiopia (Gambela).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

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

 
Wilson's Indigobird (Vidua wilsoni) [XC209964]
     by id from Gambela, Dembidolo Road, Ethiopia (call)

 
Wilson's Indigobird (Vidua wilsoni) [XC115356]
     by Andrew Spencer from Lemouroudugou lake, Cascades, Burkina Faso (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Formerly considered a subspecies of Village Indigobird (Vidua chalybeata). Often treated as conspecific with Quailfinch Indigobird (Vidua nigeriae), Barka Indigobird (Vidua larvaticola) and Cameroon Indigobird (Vidua camerunensis). Has been regarded as a subspecies of Variable Indigobird (Vidua funerea), but differs from that species in size, plumage and song mimicry. Proposed taxon lorenzi (described from Nigeria) is considered a synonym of present species.


References
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Files:
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