Fan-tailed widowbird
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| Fan-tailed widowbird | |
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| Breeding males of races E. a. bocagei and E. a. phoeniceus | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Euplectes |
| Species: | E. axillaris
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| Binomial name | |
| Euplectes axillaris (Smith, 1838)
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The fan-tailed widowbird (Euplectes axillaris), also known as the red-shouldered widowbird, is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae, which is native to grassy and swampy areas of the tropical and subtropical Afrotropics.
Range
[edit | edit source]It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Races
[edit | edit source]There are five accepted races:[2]
- E. a. subsp. bocagei (Sharpe, 1871) – West Africa from Mali to CAR and DRC, and southwards to the Caprivi Strip, Okavango and upper Zambezi regions.
- E. a. subsp. phoeniceus (Heuglin, 1862) – East Africa (Sudan to upland Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi)
- E. a. subsp. traversii (Salvadori, 1888) – Ethiopian Highlands
- E. a. subsp. zanzibaricus (Shelley, 1881) – African east coast (Somalia to Tanzania)
- E. a. subsp. axillaris (A.Smith, 1838) – southeastern Africa (lowland Malawi to eastern South Africa)
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- (Fan-tailed widowbird = ) Red-shouldered widowbird - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
- Species text on Weaver Watch
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