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title: "Long-tailed Widowbird"
description: "Euplectes progne — Uccelli. The long-tailed widowbird (Euplectes progne) is a species of bird in the weaver family Ploceidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/long-tailed-widowbird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Long-tailed Widowbird

> Euplectes progne — Uccelli. The long-tailed widowbird (Euplectes progne) is a species of bird in the weaver family Ploceidae.

- Scientific name: *Euplectes progne*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi), `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 1353
- Wikidata: [Q577664](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q577664)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13977](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13977)

## Names

- en: Long-tailed Widowbird
- de: Hahnschweifweber
- es: Obispo Colilargo
- fr: Euplecte à longue queue
- nl: Hanenstaartwidavink
- pt: Viúva-rabilonga
- pl: Wikłacz olbrzymi

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (1153), KE (84), SZ (9), ZM (8), LS (5)

## Summary

The long-tailed widowbird (Euplectes progne) is a species of bird in the weaver family Ploceidae. The species is found in Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zambia. The long-tailed widowbird is a medium-sized bird and one of the most common in the territories it inhabits.  Adult breeding males are almost entirely black with orange and white shoulders ("epaulets"), long, wide tails, and a bluish white bill. Females are rather inconspicuous, their feathers streaked tawny and black with pale patches on the chest, breast and back, narrow tail feathers, and…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-tailed_widowbird

## Photo

![Long-tailed Widowbird](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/long-tailed-widowbird/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dave Brown · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190762584

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/long-tailed-widowbird?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).