Purple Indigobird

When to see the Purple Indigobird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Purple Indigobird

The map shades 11 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Congo - Kinshasa.

About the Purple Indigobird

The purple indigobird is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is a brood parasite and parasitizes Jameson's Firefinch. It is also known as the dusky indigobird, a name which can refer to Vidua funerea. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Straw-tailed WhydahVidua fischeriThe straw-tailed whydah is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. Steel-blue WhydahVidua hypocherinaThe steel-blue whydah is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. 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.