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Red-collared Widowbird, tropicus

Red-collared Widowbird, tropicus - Adult male

Photographer

» Jason Anderson

Location

» Bare, Kibungo, Rwanda

Country image taken

» Rwanda

Date

» March, 2010

Equipment

» Sony Cybershot

Bird Species

»Euplectes ardens - Red-collared Widowbird

Bird Species (French)

»Euplecte veuve-noire

Bird Family

»Ploceidae - Weavers, Malimbes, Bishops, Widowbirds, Fodies

Bird Group

»Passeriformes Flycatchers, Starlings, Sunbirds, Swallows, Warblers, Weavers etc

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» This bird is race tropicus, as are all birds in SE Rwanda, rather than concolor which Stevenson & Fanshawe give as the resident race for Rwanda.

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