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Species of bird

Steel-blue whydah

Male in Tanzania
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Viduidae
Genus:	Vidua
Species:	V. hypocherina
Binomial name
*Vidua hypocherina* Verreaux & Verreaux, 1856

The steel-blue whydah (Vidua hypocherina) is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

References

v t e Indigobirds and whydahs (family: Viduidae)
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes
Vidua	Village indigobird (V. chalybeata) Purple indigobird (V. purpurascens) Jambandu indigobird (V. raricola) Barka indigobird (V. larvaticola) Dusky indigobird (V. funerea) Zambezi indigobird (V. codringtoni) Wilson's indigobird (V. wilsoni) Quailfinch indigobird (V. nigeriae) Jos Plateau indigobird (V. maryae) Cameroon indigobird (V. camerunensis) Pin-tailed whydah (V. macroura) Steel-blue whydah (V. hypocherina) Straw-tailed whydah (V. fischeri) Shaft-tailed whydah (V. regia) Long-tailed paradise whydah (V. paradisaea) Sahel paradise whydah (V. orientalis) Exclamatory paradise whydah (V. interjecta) Togo paradise whydah (V. togoensis) Broad-tailed paradise whydah (V. obtusa)
Anomalospiza	Cuckoo-finch (A. imberbis)

Taxon identifiers
Vidua hypocherina	Wikidata: Q1923594 Wikispecies: Vidua hypocherina BirdLife: 22719972 BOW: stbwhy1 CoL: 7G4FB eBird: stbwhy1 EoL: 45515051 GBIF: 2484619 iNaturalist: 14024 IRMNG: 11160611 ITIS: 563667 IUCN: 22719972 NCBI: 187450 Observation.org: 78232 Open Tree of Life: 1040685 Xeno-canto: Vidua-hypocherina

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