Village Indigobird / Vidua chalybeata
| Village Indigobird bird information | Values |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | LC - Least concern |
| Synonyms | Steel-blue Indigobird, Steel-blue Widow-finch, Senegal Indigo Finch, Green Indigo-Bird, Village Combassou, Steel-blue Widowfinch, Steelblue Widowfinch, Green Indigobird, South African indigobird, Indigobird, Purple Indigobird |
| Old latin name for bird | Vidua aeana, Hypochera aenea, Fringilla chalybeata, Hypochera chalybeata |
| Order | Perching birds / Passeriformes |
| Family | Indigobirds, Whydahs / Viduidae |
| Genus | Vidua |
| Breeding region | Africa |
| Breeding subregion | w, c, se |
Village Indigobird bird sounds *
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Related species
Jambandu Indigobird
Quailfinch Indigobird
Purple Indigobird
Straw-tailed Whydah
Togo Paradise Whydah
Jos Plateau Indigobird
Sahel Paradise Whydah
Zambezi Indigobird
Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
Where to see Village Indigobird
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Village Indigobird subspecies (6)
| Subspecies | Breeding subregion | Nonbreeding subregion | Extinct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vidua chalybeata amauropteryx | s Somalia to Mozambique and inland to e Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and e South Africa | - | No |
| Vidua chalybeata centralis | e DR Congo, Uganda, c Kenya and c Tanzania | - | No |
| Vidua chalybeata chalybeata | s Mauritania to Sierra Leone | - | No |
| Vidua chalybeata neumanni | Mali to Sudan | - | No |
| Vidua chalybeata okavangoensis | Angola and n Namibia to w Zambia and n Botswana | - | No |
| Vidua chalybeata ultramarina | Ethiopia and Eritrea | - | No |
Translation
| Language | Translation |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Staalblouvinkie |
| Belarusian | Чырвананогая ўдавіца |
| Bulgarian | Синя стоманена чинка |
| Catalan | vídua del Senegal, Vídua reial |
| Chinese | 靛蓝维达雀, 靛蓝维达鸟 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 靛藍維達雀 |
| Croatian | crvenonoga udovičica |
| Czech | Vdovka malá, atlásek malý |
| Danish | Atlaskfinke |
| Dutch | Staalvink |
| Esperanto | Ŝtalkolora viduo |
| Finnish | kyläleski |
| French | Loxigelle à pattes rouges, Combassou du Sénégal |
| Frisian | Stielfink |
| Galician | Viúva azul |
| German | Rotfuß-Atlaswitwe, Rotschnabel-Atlaswitwe, Rotfußwitwe |
| Hungarian | piroslábú atlaszvida |
| Irish | Plúiríneach sráidbhaile |
| Italian | Vedova dei villaggi, Uccello indaco dei villaggi |
| Japanese | シコンチョウ |
| Latvian | Tumšzilā atraitnīte |
| Lithuanian | raudonkojė našlytė |
| Maltese | għasfur nir tar-raħal |
| Norwegian | landsbyenke, Atlasfink, Landsbyenke |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | Landsbyenkje |
| Polish | wdówka atlasowa, wdówka atłasowa |
| Portuguese | viúva-senegalesa, Bico-de-prata-do-Senegal, viúva-azul |
| Russian | Красноногая вдовушка, Деревенская вдовушка, атласная вдовушка |
| Serbian | Crvenonoga udovica, Crvenonoga atlas udovica |
| Slovak | Vdovka červenonohá, vdovka zamatová |
| Spanish | Viuda senegalesa, Viuda de la Villa |
| Swahili | Nili-kaya |
| Swedish | byänka, Atlasfink |
| Turkish | Köy Çivitkuşu |
| Ukrainian | вдовичка червононога |
| Welsh | Wida pentref |