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Pin-tailed whydah
Vidua macroura
-4.43404, 15.1831
Field Notes
Description:
Breeding male is unmistakable - portrayed here on first photo. Some 12 cm in body length, plus 20 in that long black streamers. Boldly colored in black and white, with bright red bill. Non-breeding adult on other photos: pink to red bill, sparrow-colored back and white to whitish below, no streamers but with the head boldly striped black and buff.
Habitat:
Here observed in several occasions in another place in Kinshasa, a sort of picnic ground near rapids on Congo river. Still urban, or rather peri-urban setting.
Notes:
Interesting thing about Pin-tailed whydah is that is a brood parasite, adding its eggs to nests of finches, without destroying its host's eggs.
Reference Links:
Pin-tailed whydah - Wikipedia
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2018
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