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    (c) James M. Maley, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) BJ Stacey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) S.S., all rights reserved

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    (c) wolfgirl1992, all rights reserved

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    (c) Tarique Sani, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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    (c) Dimitris Salas, all rights reserved

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Pin-tailed Whydah

Vidua macroura

Worldwide
9,053 observations
Group
Birds
iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

The pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura) is a small songbird with a conspicuous pennant-like tail in breeding males. It is a resident breeding bird in most of Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

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