Purple Indigobird
Vidua purpurascens(Reichenow, A, 1883)
English (US) Purple Indigobird
The Purple Indigobird (Vidua purpurascens) 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: southwestern Angola; Kenya, northern and northeastern Tanzania, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern and eastern Zambia, Malawi, western Mozambique, northeastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, and northeastern South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Vidua purpurascens
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Purple Indigobird
- Described by
- (Reichenow, A, 1883)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Hypochera purpurascens
- Described by
- (Reichenow, A, 1883)
- Type locality
- Usegua, Tanganyika.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 31, no.162 p.221
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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