Pin-tailed Whydah
Vidua macroura(Pallas, PS, 1764)
English (US) Pin-tailed Whydah
The Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura) 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: very widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania eastward to Eritrea, southward to South Africa; introduced in the southern USA (California, Florida) and the Caribbean (Puerto Rico)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Vidua macroura
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1764)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Fringilla (macroura)
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1764)
- Type locality
- East Indies ; error, emended to Angola by Gmelin, 1789, Syst. Nat., 1(2), p. 883.
- Original description
- Adumbratiunculæ. Avium variarum praecedenti elencho insertarum, sed quæ in Systemate Naturæ Illustr. Linnæi nondum extant p.3 no.144
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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