Species profile
Shaft-tailed Whydah
Vidua regia
Quick answer
S Angola to Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, s Mozambique, Natal
- Scientific name
- Vidua regia
- Family
- Viduidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Vidua
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Shaft-tailed Whydah in your journal
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- Dusky Indigobird (Vidua funerea)
- Exclamatory Paradise-whydah (Vidua interjecta)
- Green Indigobird (Vidua codringtoni)
- Jambandu Indigobird (Vidua raricola)