Steel-blue Whydah

When to see the Steel-blue Whydah

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

Where to see the Steel-blue Whydah

The map shades 4 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 Somalia.

About the Steel-blue Whydah

The steel-blue whydah is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

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Easily confused with

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. Exclamatory Paradise WhydahVidua interjectaThe exclamatory paradise whydah or Uelle paradise whydah is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. 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.