Pin-tailed whydah

Description:

Breeding male is unmistakable - portrayed here on first photo. Some 12 cm in body length, plus 20 in that long black streamers. Boldly colored in black and white, with bright red bill. Non-breeding adult on other photos: pink to red bill, sparrow-colored back and white to whitish below, no streamers but with the head boldly striped black and buff.

Habitat:

Here observed in several occasions in another place in Kinshasa, a sort of picnic ground near rapids on Congo river. Still urban, or rather peri-urban setting.

Notes:

Interesting thing about Pin-tailed whydah is that is a brood parasite, adding its eggs to nests of finches, without destroying its host's eggs.