Buff-shouldered Widowbird © flickr.com

Previously thought to form a superspecies, or even to be conspecific, with Marsh Widowbird (Euplectes hartlaubi), but recent molecular studies suggest that the two species are not even sister-taxa. May be closest to Long-tailed Widowbird (Euplectes progne).


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