Indigobirds, Whydahs
Village Indigobird
Vidua chalybeata
The Village Indigobird (Vidua chalybeata) is a 12 g scrub bird that eats mostly seeds. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Indigobirds, Whydahs
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Weight
- 12 g
- Habitat
- Shrubland
- Diet
- Plants and seeds
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 28
Recorded in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Gambia, Senegal, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Mozambique, eSwatini, United States, Benin, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Cameroon.
Where to see it: Tuti Island (Sudan); Ouaga 2000 (Burkina Faso); Parc Urbain Bangr-Weoogo (Burkina Faso); 青尼罗河边 (Sudan); Gonse (Burkina Faso).
Photo: Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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