#1140 · 🐦 birds
Pin-tailed Whydah
🇳🇱 Dominicanerwida ·Vidua macroura
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what is it?
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.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 8,985 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 16 g.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1764 (262 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Nederlands
- Dominicanerwida
- scientific name
- Vidua macroura
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Viduidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 125
- sightings worldwide
- 8,985
- GBIF records in NL
- 8
- weight
- 15.8 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1764 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 14011, Wikidata Q908340, GBIF 2484628, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.