Family
Whydahs and Indigobirds
Viduidae
19 species with a page on Motmot.
Order: Passeriformes
The indigobirds, whydahs and cuckoo-finch make up the family Viduidae; they are small passerine birds native to Africa. These are finch-like species which usually have black or indigo predominating in their plumage. The birds named "whydahs" have long or very long tails in the breeding male.
Species in this family
- Parasitic Weaver Anomalospiza imberbis
- Cameroon Indigobird Vidua camerunensis
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Green Indigobird Vidua codringtoni
- Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri
- Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea
- Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina
- Exclamatory Paradise-Whydah Vidua interjecta
- Barka Indigobird Vidua larvaticola
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Jos Plateau Indigobird Vidua maryae
- Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah Vidua obtusa
- Sahel Paradise-Whydah Vidua orientalis
- Eastern Paradise-Whydah Vidua paradisaea
- Purple Indigobird Vidua purpurascens
- Jambandu Indigobird Vidua raricola
- Shaft-tailed Whydah Vidua regia
- Togo Paradise-Whydah Vidua togoensis
- Wilson's Indigobird Vidua wilsoni
Lookalikes compared
- Dusky Indigobird vs Purple Indigobird
- Eastern Paradise-Whydah vs Dusky Indigobird
- Eastern Paradise-Whydah vs Parasitic Weaver
- Pin-tailed Whydah vs Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah
- Pin-tailed Whydah vs Shaft-tailed Whydah
- Shaft-tailed Whydah vs Village Indigobird
- Village Indigobird vs Barka Indigobird
- Village Indigobird vs Dusky Indigobird
- Village Indigobird vs Purple Indigobird
- Village Indigobird vs Wilson's Indigobird