page_title: White-winged widowbird
section_title: Distribution and habitat
hierarchical_section_title: White-winged widowbird / Distribution and habitat
caption_attribution_description: White-winged widowbird, Euplectes albonotatus, at Pilanesberg National Park, Northwest Province, South Africa
context_page_description: The white-winged widowbird is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is highly sexually dimorphic in its breeding season, during which the male's yellow plumage turns dark and he gains more white feathers, contrasting with the female's predominantly pale coloration. Three subspecies are recognised.
context_section_description: The white-winged widowbird is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, São Tomé, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its preferred habitats are savanna, grasslands and wetlands, as well as cultivated land. Its call is "zeh-zeh-zeh" and "witz-witz-witz".
caption: Male courting females at Pilanesberg Game Reserve
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