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The black-winged red bishop is a stocky 13–15 cm (5.1–5.9 in) bird. The breeding male is scarlet apart from his black face, belly and wings and brown tail. The conical bill is thick and black. He displays prominently, singing high-pitched twitters from tall grass, puffing out his feathers or performing a slow hovering display flight. The non-breeding male is yellow-brown, streaked above and shading to whitish below. It has a whitish supercilium. It resembles non-breeding male northern red bishop, but is darker and has black wings. Females are similar, but paler.
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When to see the Black-winged Red Bishop
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-winged Red Bishop
The map shades 34 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in South Africa, United States, Guadeloupe, Kuwait.
About the Black-winged Red Bishop
The black-winged red bishop, formerly known in southern Africa as the fire-crowned bishop, is a resident breeding bird species in tropical Africa from Senegal to Sudan and south to Angola, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
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Easily confused with
Yellow-mantled WidowbirdEuplectes macrouraMales are larger than females and acquire longer tails and striking black and golden yellow plumages in the breeding season.
Black BishopEuplectes gierowiiAt 14 to 16 cm (5.5–6.3 in), the black bishop is large for its genus.
Zanzibar Red BishopEuplectes nigroventrisThe Zanzibar red bishop is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae.
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