Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
Vidua paradisaea(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
The Long-tailed Paradise Whydah (Vidua paradisaea) 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 Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia southward to northeastern South Africa, also westward across southern Africa to Angola and northern NamibiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Vidua paradisaea
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Emberiza paradisaea
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- Africa ; restricted to Angola by Linnaeus, 1766, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, p. 312.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.178
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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