Species profile
Steel-blue Whydah
Vidua hypocherina
Quick answer
southern South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, northern Uganda, Kenya, and northern and central Tanzania
- Scientific name
- Vidua hypocherina
- Family
- Viduidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Vidua
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Steel-blue 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)