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Viduidae
Sign in to saveThe indigobirds, whydahs and cuckoo-finch make up the family Viduidae; they are small passerine birds native to Africa.
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Viduidae is a family of passerine birds within the order Passeriformes. It belongs to the class Aves, phylum Chordata, and kingdom Animalia. The family is governed by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and is classified under the superfamily Passeroidea. Its common name is enkefamilien.
The family consists of two genera and 20 species. There are 439,944 recorded occurrences associated with this taxon.
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The indigobirds, whydahs and cuckoo-finch make up the family Viduidae; they are small passerine birds native to Africa.
These are finch-like species which usually have black or indigo predominating in their plumage. The birds named "whydahs" have long or very long tails in the breeding male.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viduidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.