Genus
Vidua
14 species
The list of species of Vidua genus
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The list of species of Vidua genus
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The pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura ) is a small songbird with a conspicuous pennant-like tail in breeding males. It is a resident breeding bird in most of Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
The long-tailed paradise whydah or eastern paradise whydah (Vidua paradisaea ) is from the family Viduidae of the order Passeriformes. They are small passerines with short, stubby bills found across Sub-Saharan Africa. They are mostly granivorous...
The village indigobird or the steelblue widowfinch (or in U.S. aviculture the Combassou finch) (Vidua chalybeata ) is a small songbird belonging to the family Viduidae. It is distinguishable from other indigobird species by bill and leg colours, the...
The Jos Plateau indigobird (Vidua maryae ) is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is endemic to Nigeria. It lays its eggs in the nest of the rock firefinch which is also restricted to Nigeria. Because of their inability to incubate their...
The broad-tailed paradise whydah (Vidua obtusa ) is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is found woodland and acacia savanna habitat in Sub-Saharan Africa from Angola to Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique. A brood parasite, it has a wide range...
The shaft-tailed whydah or queen whydah (Vidua regia ) is a small, sparrow-like bird in the genus Vidua. During the breeding season the male has black crown and upper body plumage, golden breast and four elongated black tail shaft feathers with...
The purple indigobird (Vidua purpurascens ) is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is also known as the dusky indigobird, a name which can refer to Vidua funerea. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya,...
The Sahel paradise whydah, yellow-naped whydah or northern paradise whydah (Vidua orientalis ) is a small songbird.
The Cameroon indigobird (Vidua camerunensis ) is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is considered by some authors to be a subspecies of the variable indigobird (Vidua funerea ). They range from Sierra Leone to east Cameroon, north east...
The Togo paradise whydah (Vidua togoensis ) is a species of bird in the family Viduidae.It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
The jambandu indigobird (Vidua raricola ) is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is also known as the goldbreast indigobird.It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia,...
The quailfinch indigobird (Vidua nigeriae ) is a small songbird. It is a resident breeding bird in The Gambia, Nigeria and Cameroon. It occurs in isolated localities, especially on river flood plains.It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of...
Wilson's indigobird (Vidua wilsoni ) or the pale-winged indigobird, is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana,...
The barka indigobird (Vidua larvaticola ) is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is found in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sudan, and South Sudan. It is also known as the baka indigobird but the spelling "barka" is...
