Copyright: AW/monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Kinshasa • Dec 2010

Bird name: Pin Tailed Whydah
Latin: Vidua macroura
Other:
Family: Viduidae • Whydahs
Range: Tropical Africa, Angola to Tanzania

The above photo is probably a transitional Pin-Tailed Whydah, but the adult plumage is quite different. Seen in Kinshasa in the DRC.

216 Viduidae - Indigobirds, Whydahs - IOC 2.5 - 2010

Vidua chalybeata - Village Indigobird - W, C, SE Africa
Vidua purpurascens - Purple Indigobird - E, S Africa
Vidua raricola - Jambandu Indigobird - W, C Africa
Vidua larvaticola - Barka Indigobird - W, C Africa
Vidua funerea - Dusky Indigobird - W, C, S Africa
Vidua codringtoni - Zambezi Indigobird - SE Africa
Vidua wilsoni - Wilson's Indigobird - C Africa
Vidua nigeriae - Quailfinch Indigobird - C Africa
Vidua maryae - Jos Plateau Indigobird - Nigeria
Vidua camerunensis - Cameroon Indigobird - W, C, E Africa
Vidua macroura - Pin-tailed Whydah - W, C, E, S Africa
Vidua hypocherina - Steel-blue Whydah - E Africa
Vidua fischeri - Straw-tailed Whydah - E Africa
Vidua regia - Shaft-tailed Whydah - S Africa
Vidua paradisaea - Long-tailed Paradise Whydah - EC, SC Africa
Vidua orientalis - Sahel Paradise Whydah - W, C, NE Africa
Vidua interjecta - Exclamatory Paradise Whydah - C Africa
Vidua togoensis - Togo Paradise Whydah - W Africa
Vidua obtusa - Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah - C, S Africa

Anomalospiza imberbis - Cuckoo Finch - W, C, E, SC Africa - NB name