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Yellow-mantled Widowbird
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Yellow-mantled Widowbird
Euplectes macroura
The yellow-mantled widowbird (Euplectes macroura), also known as the yellow-backed widow, is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is the type species of the Euplectes genus, originally named for the city of Ouidah in Benin. Nowadays the name whydah (from "Ouidah") is however applied to some species in the Viduidae.
From the article Yellow-mantled widowbird on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Males are larger than females and acquire longer tails and striking black and golden yellow plumages in the breeding season. The mantle colour is either golden yellow, or in the case of the northeastern race, E. m. macrocercus, black. The yellow shoulders persist in all male plumages, whether breeding or non-breeding.
Range & habitat
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. It has a wide intra-tropical range of presence.
Wikipedia: “Range and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72851.