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title: "Pin-tailed Whydah"
description: "Vidua macroura — Uccelli. The pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura) is a small songbird with a conspicuous pennant-like tail in breeding males."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/pin-tailed-whydah
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pin-tailed Whydah

> Vidua macroura — Uccelli. The pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura) is a small songbird with a conspicuous pennant-like tail in breeding males.

- Scientific name: *Vidua macroura*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi), `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 8695
- Wikidata: [Q908340](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908340)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14011](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14011)

## Names

- en: Pin-tailed Whydah
- de: Dominikanerwitwe
- es: Viuda colicinta
- fr: Veuve dominicaine
- nl: Dominikanerwida
- pt: Viúva-de-rabo-pontudo
- pl: Wdówka białobrzucha

## Countries with the most observations

US (3094), ZA (3047), KE (294), UG (247), TZ (211), PR (147), PT (121), BJ (87), ZW (84), RE (78), RW (69), ET (64)

## Summary

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.

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

## Photo

![Pin-tailed Whydah](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pin-tailed-whydah/medium.jpg)

Photo: Tory Bush · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/376447272

## Machine access

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