Yellow-mantled Widowbird / Euplectes macroura
Yellow-mantled Widowbird bird information | Values |
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Conservation status | LC - Least concern |
Synonyms | Yellow-shouldered Widow-bird, Yellow-shouldered Whydah, Yellow-backed Widow, Yellowbacked Widow, Yellow-mantled Whydah, Yellow-backed Widowbird, Yellow-shouldered Widowbird, Yellow shouldered Widowbird |
Old latin name for bird | Loxia macroura, Loxia longicauda, Euplectes macrourus |
Order | Perching birds / Passeriformes |
Family | Weavers, Widowbirds / Ploceidae |
Genus | Euplectes |
Breeding region | Africa |
Breeding subregion | w, c, e, se |
Yellow-mantled Widowbird bird sounds *
* All sounds were found via Xeno-canto.org API
Related species

Red-cowled Widowbird

Long-tailed Widowbird

Fan-tailed Widowbird

Yellow-crowned Bishop

Northern Red Bishop

Black Bishop

Southern Red Bishop

Fire-fronted Bishop

Yellow Bishop
Where to see Yellow-mantled Widowbird
- Angola
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Yellow-mantled Widowbird subspecies (3)
Subspecies | Breeding subregion | Nonbreeding subregion | Extinct |
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Euplectes macroura conradsi | Ukerewe I. in Lake Victoria | - | No |
Euplectes macroura macrocercus | Ethiopia, Uganda and w Kenya | - | No |
Euplectes macroura macroura | Senegal and Gambia to s Sudan and sw Kenya and s to Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and w Mozambique | - | No |
Translation
Language | Translation |
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Afrikaans | Geelrugflap |
Catalan | bisbe de dors groc, Teixidor d'espatlles grogues |
Chinese | 黄肩巧织雀 |
Chinese (Traditional) | 黃肩寡婦鳥 |
Croatian | kudrava pletilja |
Czech | vida dlouhoocasá, Prádelník žlutohrbetý |
Danish | Gulrygget Vidafinke |
Dutch | Geelrugwidavink |
Finnish | keltaselkäpiispa |
French | Euplecte à dos d'or, Euplecte à dos d’or, Veuve à dos d'or |
German | Gelbschulterweber, Gelbschulterwida, Gelbschulter-Wida |
Hungarian | sárgapalástú özvegypinty |
Italian | Vedova spallegialle, Vedova dorsodorato |
Japanese | キガタホウオウ |
Lithuanian | geltonpetis aksominis audėjas |
Maltese | għasfura armla tal-mantell isfar |
Norwegian | gulkappevever, Gulkappevever |
Norwegian Nynorsk | Gulkappevevar |
Polish | Wikłacz epoletowy, Wikłacz płoszczowy, wikłacz płaszczowy, wiklacz plaszczowy |
Portuguese | viúva-de-manto-amarelo, bispo-de-dorso-amarelo, bispo-de-manto-amarelo |
Russian | Желтоплечий бархатный ткач, Желтоплечий ткачик |
Serbian | Žutoramena vida |
Slovak | tkácik žltochrbtý, tkáčik žltochrbtý |
Slovenian | Golovrati mišak |
Spanish | Obispo de Manto Amarillo, Obispo dorsiamarillo |
Swahili | Kweche Mgongo-njano |
Swedish | gulryggig vidafink, Gulryggad vidafink |
Turkish | Sarı Sırtlı Dulkuşu |
Ukrainian | вайдаг жовтоплечий |