Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah*
Id (Atlas):
Vidua obtusa
Description (10 )
Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah
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Other Names (World)
Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah, Broad-tailed Paradise Widow, Chapin's Paradise Whydah, Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah
Family
Viduidae (Whydahs And Indigobirds)
Size
31 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Chapin, 1922)
Habitat
Dry savanna.
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Kenya.
Central Kenya (old record); southern and eastern DRCongo, north, central and south-eastern Angola, Tanzania (except north-east), Zambia, Malawi, north-western and southern Mozambique, Botswana (Chobe), north-eastern Namibia (Caprivi), northern and south-eastern Zimbabwe and locally in northern 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 XC194823
Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah (Vidua obtusa ) [XC194823 ]
by id from Manyoni, Singida, Tanzania (call)
Listen to XC194813
Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah (Vidua obtusa ) [XC194813 ]
by Thibaut Chansac from Manyoni, Singida, Tanzania (call, or some kind of sub-song?)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Formerly considered conspecific with Eastern Paradise-Whydah (Vidua paradisaea ), Sahel Paradise-whydah (Vidua orientalis ), Exclamatory Paradise-whydah (Vidua interjecta ) and Togo Paradise-whydah (Vidua togoensis ), and all sometimes placed in a separate genus Steganura . However, molecular-genetic data indicate that present species and Eastern Paradise-Whydah (Vidua paradisaea ) are sister-species, using different host species and differing in song.
References
See References .
Files:
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