Scientific name: Vidua paradisaea
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Viduidae

The Eastern Paradise Whydah is a small brown sparrow-like bird of Eastern Africa, from east Sudan to south Angola. During the breeding season the male molts into breeding plumage that consists of a black head and back, rusty brown breast, bright yellow nape, and buffy white abdomen with broad, elongated black tail feathers up to 36cm long (approximately three times the length of its body).

Males and females are almost indistinguishable outside of the breeding season.

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