Species profile
Jambandu Indigobird
Vidua raricola
Quick answer
discontinuously distributed from Sierra Leone east to southwestern Sudan, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern South Sudan, and western Ethiopia
- Scientific name
- Vidua raricola
- Family
- Viduidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Vidua
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Jambandu Indigobird in your journal
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- Dusky Indigobird (Vidua funerea)
- Exclamatory Paradise-whydah (Vidua interjecta)
- Green Indigobird (Vidua codringtoni)
- Jos Plateau Indigobird (Vidua maryae)