(vidua macroura)
The Pin-tailed Whydah is a common and widespread bird found through much of Africa, normally in savanna,grassland, scrub, parks and gardens. The male in breeding plumage has a spectacular long tail - in flight it looks like a flying exclamation mark. Non breeding males and females are a nodescript brown. Like Cuckoos, it is a parasitic species and will parasitise the nests of Waxbills, Pytilias nad Warblers.