Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah*
Id (Atlas):
Vidua interjecta
Description (10 )
Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah
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Other Names (World)
Exclamatory Paradise-whydah, Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah, East African Paradise Whydah, Eastern Paradise Whydah, African Paradise Whydah, Acacia Paradise Whydah, Long-tailed Paradise Widow, Nigeria Paradise Whydah, Nigeria Paradise Widow, Uelle Paradise Whydah, Uelle Paradise Widow, Exclamatory Paradise Whydah
Family
Viduidae (Whydahs And Indigobirds)
Size
12.50 - 39.50 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Grote, 1922)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, dry savanna.
Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo.
Unknown to Guinea-bissau.
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.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files
Listen to XC209961
Exclamatory Paradise Whydah (Vidua interjecta ) [XC209961 ]
by id from Gambela, Dembidolo Road, Ethiopia (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Formerly considered conspecific with Broad-tailed Paradise-whydah (Vidua obtusa ), Northern Paradise-Whydah (Vidua orientalis ), Long-tailed 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 Northern Paradise-Whydah (Vidua orientalis ).
Occasional hybridization recorded with indigobirds (species undetermined).
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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