Shaft-tailed Whydah
Vidua regia(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Shaft-tailed Whydah
The Shaft-tailed Whydah (Vidua regia) 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: southern Angola to Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, southern Mozambique, and KwaZulu-NatalRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Vidua regia
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Shaft-tailed Whydah
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Emberiza regia
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Africa ; southern Angola suggested by W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 810.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.313
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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