Straw-tailed Whydah
Vidua fischeri(Reichenow, A, 1882)
English (US) Straw-tailed Whydah
The Straw-tailed Whydah (Vidua fischeri) 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: southeastern South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, northeastern Uganda, Kenya, and TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Vidua fischeri
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Straw-tailed Whydah
- Described by
- (Reichenow, A, 1882)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Linura Fischeri
- Described by
- (Reichenow, A, 1882)
- Type locality
- Usegua, East Africa [= Useguha, Tanganyika].
- Original description
- Ornithologisches Centralblatt 7 p.91
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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