widow bird

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widow bird (plural widow birds)

1. Any of several species of birds in the family Viduidae, incorporating whydahs and widow finches.

• long-tailed widowbird, sakabula (Euplectes progne)
• red-collared widowbird

• Viduidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Viduidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Viduidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• 1978 A Dictionary of South African English. Ed. Jean Branford. Oxford.
• 1983 Newman's Birds of Southern Africa. Ed. Kennith Newman. Macmillan.