Fan-tailed Widowbird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Ploceidae

Genus

Euplectes

eBird Code

fatwid1

Subspecies (5)

• Euplectes axillaris axillaris

  Malawi and Mozambique southward to eastern South Africa

• Euplectes axillaris bocagei

  West Africa to Angola, southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Botswana, and Namibia

• Euplectes axillaris phoeniceus

  southeastern Sudan, South Sudan, and western Ethiopia southward through eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and western Kenya to eastern Zambia and northern Malawi

• Euplectes axillaris traversii

  highlands of Ethiopia

• Euplectes axillaris zanzibaricus

  coastal Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania