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 LC    Cameroon Indigobird* Id (Atlas):
    Vidua camerunensis

Description (4)
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Other Names (World)
Cameroon Indigobird, Fonio Indigobird, Pale-winged Indigobird

Family
Viduidae (Whydahs And Indigobirds)

Size
11.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Grote, 1922)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, lowland dry grassland, arable land, plantations.

Range (Guide)
Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo.

Unknown to Senegal.

Guinea-Bissau, southern Mali, Guinea, northern Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western and central Cameroon, southern Chad, Central African Republic, southern Sudan, north-eastern and western DRCongo (Uele, Equateur, Bandundu), and eastern PRCongo (N'gabé).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
Cameroon Indigobird (Vidua camerunensis) [XC445091]
     by id from Gaoual Prefecture, Bok\u00e9, Guinea (song)

Subspecies
No 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).

Formerly considered a subspecies of Village Indigobird (Vidua chalybeata). Often treated as conspecific with Wilson's Indigobird (Vidua wilsoni), Quailfinch Indigobird (Vidua nigeriae), Baka Indigobird (Vidua larvaticola) and sometimes also with Variable Indigobird (Vidua funerea).


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Cameroon Indigobird (Vidua camerunensis) - 4 files


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