Pin-tailed Whydah
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Pin-tailed Whydah

Vidua macroura

Overview

Kruger National Park, uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park and iSimangaliso Wetland Park are among the 19 atlas places where the Pin-tailed Whydah is recorded. Records concentrate most in South Africa, the United States and Uganda, and the map follows where these records gather. The atlas holds about 155,000 open records of this bird from 14 countries.

Because it is recorded in both hemispheres, the seasons for the Pin-tailed Whydah differ by region, and each place page shows the months recorded there.

Records
154,550
Countries
14
Atlas places
19
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Pin-tailed Whydah as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 101916 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • United States
    25 km zone · high confidence · 30838 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Uganda
    25 km zone · high confidence · 5533 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · high confidence · 4504 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Puerto Rico
    25 km zone · high confidence · 3645 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zimbabwe
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2071 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1725 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mozambique
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1181 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Nigeria
    25 km zone · high confidence · 845 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Ghana
    25 km zone · high confidence · 721 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Pin-tailed Whydah