Exclamatory Paradise Whydah

When to see the Exclamatory Paradise Whydah

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Exclamatory Paradise Whydah

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 3 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 Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Togo.

About the Exclamatory Paradise Whydah

The exclamatory paradise whydah or Uelle paradise whydah is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is found in the Sudanian savanna region in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, and Togo. It was formerly considered conspecific with the related species long-tailed paradise whydah Vidua paradisaea of eastern and southern Africa, being originally described as a subspecies of it.

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Easily confused with

Broad-tailed Paradise WhydahVidua obtusaThe breeding male is 31–36 cm (12–14 in) long, and the nonbreeding male and the female are 14–15 cm (5.5–5.9 in) long. Sahel Paradise WhydahVidua orientalisThe females are 13–14 cm (5.1–5.5 in) long, tawny above with narrow mantle streaking; in females a dark line extends behind the eye. Steel-blue WhydahVidua hypocherinaThe steel-blue whydah is a species of bird in the family Viduidae.