Pin-tailed Whydah
Vidua macroura
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyViduidae (Indigobirds and Whydahs)
- GenusVidua (Indigobirds and Whydahs)
- SpeciesVidua macroura (Pin-tailed Whydah)
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. Wikipedia →
20–30% of wildlife watchers report a Pin-tailed Whydah sighting in Serengeti National Park, based on 804 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.
Closest Relatives at Serengeti National Park
Steel-blue Whydah
Vidua hypocherina
Straw-tailed Whydah
Vidua fischeri
Village Indigobird
Vidua chalybeata
Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
Vidua paradisaea
Purple Indigobird
Vidua purpurascens
Cuckoo Finch
Anomalospiza imberbis
Superb Starling
Lamprotornis superbus
Rüppell's Glossy-starling
Lamprotornis purpuroptera
Grey-backed Fiscal
Lanius excubitoroides
Northern White-crowned Shrike
Eurocephalus ruppelli
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilis
Hildebrandt's Starling
Lamprotornis hildebrandti
📅 Monthly Probability
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there
Parks Where Found
Quick answers
What are the chances of seeing a Pin-tailed Whydah in Serengeti National Park?
About 21% of wildlife watchers report a Pin-tailed Whydah sighting in Serengeti National Park, based on 804 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.
When is the best time to see Pin-tailed Whydah in Serengeti National Park?
April has the highest sighting rate for Pin-tailed Whydah in Serengeti National Park in our monthly data.