Editing Village indigobird (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{More citations needed|date=November 2024}}
{{speciesbox
| name = Village indigobird
| image = Village indigobird, Vidua chalybeata, at Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa (male) (17849716130).jpg
| image_caption = Male of the red-billed subspecies (''V. c. amauropteryx'') in [[Mapungubwe National Park|Mapungubwe N. P.]]
| image2 = Female village indigobird, Vidua chalybeata, at Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa . Not good shots, but they go with all the males I posted (18047546632), crop.jpg
| image2_caption = Female in Mapungubwe N. P.
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=''Vidua chalybeata'' |volume=2018 |page=e.T22719936A132133516 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22719936A132133516.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Vidua
| species = chalybeata
| authority = ([[Statius Muller|Müller]], 1776)
}}
The '''village indigobird''' ('''''Vidua chalybeata'''''), also known as the '''steelblue widowfinch''' or (in U.S. aviculture) the '''Combassou finch''', is a small [[songbird]] belonging to the family [[indigobird|Viduidae]]. It is distinguishable from other indigobird species by bill and leg colours, the colour tinge of the male's breeding plumage, song, and to lesser extent, the nestling's plumage and mouth pattern.<ref name="pay">{{cite web |last1=Payne |first1=R. |title=Village Indigobird (Vidua chalybeata) |url=http://www.hbw.com/species/village-indigobird-vidua-chalybeata#Taxonomy|website=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive |date = 2016 |publisher=Lynx Edicions, Barcelona|access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> The bill colour can be red or white depending on the population, and there is some regional variation in the colour tone of the male's plumage.