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Passeriformes / Ploceidae / Euplectes

Yellow-mantled Widowbird

Euplectes macroura

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (yeswid2) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Euplectes

Subspecies (3)

Euplectes macroura conradsi

northwestern Tanzania (Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria)
Euplectes macroura macrocercus

highlands of Ethiopia, Uganda, and western Kenya
Euplectes macroura macroura

southern Senegal to Liberia, eastward to southern Sudan and South Sudan, southward to central Angola, Zambia, eastern Zimbabwe, western Mozambique, and Malawi

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (yeswid2) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.