Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Long-tailed Widowbird
Euplectes progne
- epik
- 28 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Males fly low over grasslands trailing half-meter tail feathers to impress females. Slowest bird in the sky, best-dressed.
- Populasi
- Not numerically quantified; described as one of the most common/widespread and locally abundant widowbirds across its range
- Habitat
- Open swampy and rank grassland, vleis, and grassy hillsides, including montane grassland up to ~2,750 m in the Drakensberg
- Fakta menarik
- In a classic 1982 field experiment, ornithologist Malte Andersson artificially lengthened male Long-tailed Widowbird tails and showed that females strongly preferred the longest-tailed males, providing landmark evidence for sexual selection driving extreme ornamentation.
- Sebaran
- Sub-Saharan Africa in three disjunct populations: central Kenya highlands (E. p. delamerei); southeastern DR Congo, southern Angola, and western/northeastern Zambia (E. p. delacouri); and southeastern Botswana, eastern South Africa, Eswatini, and Lesotho (E. p. progne)
- Makanan
- Primarily grass seeds, supplemented with arthropods such as beetles, cicadas, aphids, and spiders (especially when feeding chicks)
- Ukuran
- 0,71 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,14 m
- Masa hidup
- 2 tahun
