Cameroon Indigobird
Vidua camerunensis(Grote, H, 1922)
English (US) Cameroon Indigobird
The Cameroon Indigobird (Vidua camerunensis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Viduidae (Whydahs and Indigobirds) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: discontinuously distributed from Sierra Leone eastward to northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and South SudanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Vidua camerunensis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Cameroon Indigobird
- Described by
- (Grote, H, 1922)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Hypochera chalybeata camerunensis
- Described by
- (Grote, H, 1922)
- Type locality
- between Nola and Mbaiki, southeastern Cameroons [= Oubangui-Chari] .
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 70, no.2-3 p.398
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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