Red-cowled Widowbird - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by volker sthamer
Location: Senkele - Ethiopia , Africa, July, 2009

Euplectes laticauda

Identification

Breeding adult male: Black with long tail (thinner tail than other long-tailed widowbirds); lacks coloured shoulder patches. A red collar across the lower throat extends to the nape and crown. Upperside shows yellow feather edges.

Female and non-breeding male: Brown with a boldly striped black and buff head and unstreaked, buffy underparts (or possibly a faint streaking of buff and paler colors on upper breast).

Taxonomy

This species was formerly included within Red-collared Widowbird.

Subspecies

This is a monotypic species[1]. Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:

• E. l. laticauda

• Highlands of eastern South Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia

• E. l. suahelica

• Highlands of Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
3. Stevenson, T. & J Fanshawe 2020. Birds of East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi) - second edition. Helm Field Guides, Christooher Helm London. ISBN 978-1-4081-5736-7

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