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What the Village Indigobird sounds like
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The village indigobird is 11–12 cm in length. The adult male is entirely greenish-black or bluish-black except for his orange-red legs and conical white bill. The female resembles a female house sparrow, with streaked brown upperparts, buff underparts, a whitish supercilium and a yellowish bill, although she also has red legs. Immature birds are like the female but plainer and without a supercilium. Many of the indigobirds are very similar in appearance, with the males difficult to separate in the field, and the young and females near impossible.
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When to see the Village Indigobird
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Village Indigobird
The map shades 39 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 United States.
About the Village Indigobird
The village indigobird, also known as the steelblue widowfinch or the Combassou finch, is a small songbird belonging to the family Viduidae. It is distinguishable from other indigobird species by bill and leg colours, the colour tinge of the male's breeding plumage, song, and to lesser extent, the nestling's plumage and mouth pattern. The bill colour can be red or white depending on the population, and there is some regional variation in the colour tone of the male's plumage.
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Easily confused with
Long-tailed Paradise WhydahVidua paradisaeaBreeding male long-tailed paradise whydahs have black heads and back, a rusty coloured breast, a bright buffy-yellow nape, and white abdomen with broad, elongated black tail feathers that can grow up to 36 cm or more.
Shaft-tailed WhydahVidua regiaThe shaft-tailed whydah or queen whydah is a small, sparrow-like bird in the genus Vidua.
Dusky IndigobirdVidua funereaThe dusky indigobird, variable indigobird, or black widowfinch is a species of bird in the family Viduidae.
Side by side: Pin-tailed Whydah vs Village Indigobird · Long-tailed Paradise Whydah vs Village Indigobird
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