Weavers are seed-eating birds with rounded conical bills, most of which breed in sub-Saharan Africa, with fewer species in tropical Asia and also in Australia. The weaver group is divided into the
buffalo-weavers,
sparrow-weavers and
typical weavers. The males of many species are brightly coloured, usually in red or yellow and black, some species show variation in colour only in the breeding season.
Weaver get their name because of their elaborately woven nests. The nests vary in size, shape, material used, and construction techniques from species to species. Materials used for building nests
include fine leaf-fibers, grass, and twigs. Most species weave nests that have narrow entrances, facing downward. The weavers are gregarious birds which often breed colonially. Usually the male birds
weave the nests and use them as a form of display to lure prospective females.
Also in the weaver family are
bishops,
malimbes,
fody's,
widowbirds.
Genus Amblyospiza - 1 species
Weaver, Thick-billed also
Grosbeak Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons Found:
Africa
Image by:
1, 2, 3) Arno Meintjes 4)
Dick Daniels - Johannesburg, South Africa 5)
Frans_Vandewalle
1, 2) Female 3, 4, 5) Male




Genus Anaplectes - 1 species
Weaver, Red-headed Anaplectes rubriceps Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Dick Daniels near Kruger National Park, South Africa 6)
Derek_Keats - South Africa
1, 2) Female 3, 4, 5, 6) Male





Genus Brachycope - 1 species
Weaver,_Bob-tailed Brachycope anomala Found: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo
Image by:
1, 2) Zlatan Celebic - DR Congo
1) Female 20 Breeding male

Genus Bubalornis Found: Africa
Weaver,_Red-billed_Buffalo- Bubalornis niger Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Darren Bellerby - South Africa 2)
Greg_Tee - South Africa
3, 4) Dick Daniels - Tanzania



Weaver,_White-billed Buffalo- Bubalornis albirostris Found: Africaequator)
Image by: 1)
Frans_Vandewalle - Gambia 2)
Peter Steward - Kenya 3)
JV Verde - Gambia 4)
Francesco_Veronesi - Kenya



Genus Dinemellia - 1 species
Weaver, White-headed Buffalo- Dinemellia dinemelli Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - Tanzania
2)
Dick - Jacksonville Zoo, Florida 3)
Dick - San Diego Zoo
4) Steve Garvie - Bufalo Springs NP, Kenya.



Genus Histurgops- 1 species
Weaver,_Rufous-tailed Histurgops ruficauda Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Kenny_Murray - Tanzania 2)
Profberger - Tanzania 3)
Nik_Borrow - Tanzania
4) Dick - Tanzania



Genus Philetairus - 1 species
Weaver, Sociable Philetairus socius Found: southern Africa
Image by: 1)
Jerry Oldenettel - Nambia 2)
Pim Stouten - South Africa 3)
Mary Wu 4)
Andy Cowley - Namibia 5)
Cristiano Crolle - Solitaire, Namibia 6)
Daniele Columbo - South Africa
1) Juvenile





Genus Plocepasser Found: Africa
The Sparrow-weavers.
Weaver,_Chestnut-backed_Sparrow- Plocepasser rufoscapulatus Found: Angola, DR Cong, Malawi, Zambia
Image by: 1)
Nigel_Voaden - DR Congo 2)
Nik_Borrow - Malawi

Weaver,_Chestnut-crowned_Sparrow- Plocepasser superciliosus Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Francesco_Veronesi - Uganda 2)
Lip_kee - Ethiopia 3)
Nik_Borrow - Kenya


Weaver,_Donaldson-Smith's_Sparrow-. Plocepasser donaldsoni Found: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
Image by: 1)
Steve Garvie - Samburu NP, Kenya 2)
Peter_Steward - Kenya 3)
Francesco_Veronesi - Kenya


Weaver,_White-browed_Sparow- Plocepasser mahali Found:
Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Dick - Nairobi National Park
3, 5) Carol Foil -
Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Kenya 4)
Cristiano Crolle - Sossusvlei, Namibia
6)
Hans_Hillewaert - Namibia





Genus Ploceus
Found: Africa, also Europe
Typical Weavers
Weaver,_African_Golden also
Yellow Weaver Ploceus subaureus Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 4) Anders_Peltomaa - South Africa 2)
Cessna
206 - Zanzibar
3) Sias van Schalkwyk - South Africa
1) Female 2, 3, 4) Male



Weaver, Baglafecht Ploceus baglafecht Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 8) Dick Daniels - Nairobi National Park, Kenya
2, 5) Carol Foil - Kenya
3, 4, 7) Dick - San Diego Zoo
6)
Darren
Bellerby - Kenya 9, 10)
Joseph Mochoge - Gilgil, Kenya
1) Juvenile 2, 3) Female 5 - 9) Male









Weaver,_Bannerman's Ploceus bannermani Found: Cameroon, Nigeria
Image by: 1)
Nik_Borrow - Cameroon
Weaver,_Bar-winged Ploceus angolensis Found: Angola, DR Congo, Zambia
Image by: 1)
John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2)
Michael_Harvey

Weaver,_Bate's Ploceus batesi Found: Cameroon
Image by: 1)
Henrik_Gronvold
1) Male - top; female - bottom.
Weaver,_Bertram's Ploceus bertrandi Found: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia
Image by: 1)
John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2)
Anthony_Roberts - Malawi 3)
Peter_Steward - Malawi
1) Pair 2) Male and juvenile 3) Male


Weaver,_Black-billed Ploceus melanogaster Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2)
Francesco_Veronesi - Kenya 3)
Robert_van_Zalinge - Uganda Dave_Curtis
1, 2, 3) Female


Weaver,_Black-chinned Ploceus nigrimentus Found: Angola, DR Congo, Gabon
Image by: 1)
Ron_Hoff - Gabon
1) Male
Weaver,_Black-headed also
Yellow-backed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus Found: Europe,
Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Joseph Mochoge - Kenya 3)
Darren Bellerby - Kenya
4, 5) Nik_Borrow - Uganda 6)
Agustin_Povedano - Spain
Nonbreeding male
5, 6) Male





Weaver, Black-necked Ploceus nigricollis Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - specimen in
Nairobi National Museum, Kenya 2)
Peter Steward - Kenya
Francesco_Veronesi - Ghana 4)
Simon Tonge
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male



Weaver, Bocage's Ploceus temporalis Found: Angola, DR Congo, Zambia
Image by:
1, 2) Henrik_Gronvold
1) Female 2) Male

Weaver,_Brown-capped Ploceus insignis Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Nik_Borrow - Kenya 2)
Francesco_Veronesi - Kenya
1) Female 2) Male

Weaver, Cape Ploceus capensis Found: South Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Dick Daniels - Oudshoorn, South Africa 3)
Arno Meintjes 4) Dick - Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
5, 6, 7, 8) Dick- Swaziland 9)
Dick -
Birds of Eden, South Africa 10)
Cristiano Crolle - West Coast National Park, South Africa
1, 2) Female 3 - 9) Male







Weaver,_Chestnut Ploceus rubiginosus Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Charles Sharp - Kenya 3)
Bries
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Weaver,_Cinnamon Ploceus badius Found: Sudan
Image by: 1)
Abubakr_Mohammad - Sudan
2, 3) Tom_Jenner - Sudan
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Weaver, Clarke's Ploceus golandi Found: Kenya
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - specimen in
Nairobi National Museum, Kenya 2)
Steve_Garvie

Weaver,_Compact Ploceus superciliosus Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Francesco_Veronesi - Uganda
Weaver,_Forest also
Dark-backed Weaver Ploceus bicolor Found:
Image by: 1)
Steve_Garvie 2, 3) Derek_Keats - South Africa


Weaver, Fox's Ploceus spekeoides Found: Uganda
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - specimen in
Nairobi National Museum, Kenya
Weaver,_Giant Ploceus grandis Found: São Tomé and Príncipe
Image by: 1)
Bruna_Porter 2)
naturgucker

Weaver,_Golden-backed Ploceus jacksoni Found: Burundi, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Image by: 1) Nik Borrow - Kenya 2)
Frederidc_Salein - Kenya 3)
Steve_Garvie - Kenya
1) Non-breeding male 2, 3) Male


Weaver,_Golden-naped Ploceus aureonucha Found: DR Congo
Image by: 1)
pixark
Weaver, Golden Palm Ploceus bojeri Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Thierry Marysael 2, 3)
Carol Foil- Archers Post,
Rift Valley, Kenya


Weaver, Heuglin's Masked Ploceus heuglini Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - specimen in
Nairobi National Museum, Kenya 2)
Nigel Voaden
Female on left; male on right.

Weaver, Holub's Golden also
Large Golden-weaver Ploceus xanthops Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
DIck Daniels - South Africa 2)
Lip_kee 3, 4) Sergey_Yeliseev - Kenya



Weaver,_Juba also
Salvadori's Weaver Ploceus dichrocephalus Found: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
Image by: 1)
Jacques_Erard
Weaver,_Katanga_Masked- Ploceus katangae Found: DR Congo, Zambia
Image by:
1, 2) Nigel Voaden - Zambia

Weaver,_Kilombero Ploceus burnieri Found: Tanzania
Image by: 1)
Michael_Harvey - Tanzania
Weaver, Lesser Masked Ploceus intermedius Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Dick Daniels - Plettenburg Bay, South Africa
3, 4) Dick -
Birds of Eden, South Africa
5, 6, 7, 8) Dick - luhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, South Africa
1) Juvenile and female 2) Juvenile 3 - 8) Male







Weaver,_Little Ploceus luteolus Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Peter_Steward - Kenya 2) Lip_kee - Ethiopia 3)
Francesco_Veronesi - Kemya


Weaver,_Loango Ploceus subpersonatus Found: Angola, Congo, Gabon
Image by: 1)
John_Caddick - Gabon 2)
Ron_Hoff - Gabon 3)
Nick_Borrow - Gabon
1) Female 2, 3) Male


Weaver,_Lufira_Masked- Ploceus ruweti Found: DR Congo
Image by: 1)
hbw.com
Weaver,_Maxwell's_Black Ploceus albinucha Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Nik_Borrow - Ghana 2)
Francesco_Veronesi - Ghana
1) Juvenile

Weaver, Nelicourvi Ploceus nelicourvi Found: Madagascar
Image by: 1)
Marcus Lilje 2)
Pat and Keith Taylor - Mantadia National Park
1) Female 2) Male

Weaver,_Northern_Brown-throated Ploceus castanops Found: Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Image by:
1, 2) DJ_Cockburn - Malawi
1) Female 2) Male

Weaver,_Northern_Masked- Ploceus taeniopterus Found: DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan.
Image by:
1, 3) Dave Curtis - Kenya 2)
Charles_J_Sharp Miichael_And_Helen_Cox - Kenya
1) Female 2) Nonbreeding male 3, 4) Breeding male



Weaver,_Olive-headed Ploceus olivaceiceps Found: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia
Image by:
1, 2) Brian_Ralphs

Weaver,_Orange Ploceus aurantius Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Michael and Helen Cox 2, 3) Francesco_Veronesi - Ghana


Weaver,_Preuss's Ploceus preussi Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Paul_Noakes - Cameroon 2)
Graham_Ekins - Ghana

Weaver,_Principe Ploceus princeps Found: São Tomé and Príncipe ( off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa)
Image by: 1)
naturgucker 2)
Klaus_Ewald

Weaver,_Rueppell's_Masked- Ploceus galbula Found: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen
Image by: 1)
Henri Quatre - Saudi Arabia 2)
Lee-nah 3)
Sergey_Yeliseev


Weaver, Sakalava Ploceus sakalava Found: Madagascar
Image by:
1, 2,
3,
4, 7, 8) Dick Daniels - near Isalo, Madagascar 5)
David Cook 6)
Ross Tsai
1, 2, 3) Female 5 - 8) Male







Weaver,_Sao_Tome Ploceus sanctithomae Found: Sao Tome and Principe (islands off west coast of Africa)
Image by: 1) Muchaxo
Weaver,_Slender-billed Ploceus pelzelni Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Tom Tarrant - Uganda
2, 3) David_Cook - Uganda
1, 2) Female 3) Male


Weaver, Southern Brown-throated Ploceus xanthopterus Found:
Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Jerry Oldenettel - near Shalsowe, Botswana 3)
Francesco_Veronesi - Malawi 4)
Ian_White - Botswana
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male



Weaver, Southern Masked- Ploceus velatus Found: southern Africa
Image by:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Dick Daniels - Jonannesburg, South Africa 7)
Derek
Keats 8)
Cristiano Crolle - Swakopmund, Namibia
1 - 4) Female 5 - 8) Male







Weaver,_Spectacled Ploceus ocularis Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - specimen in
Nairobi National Museum, Kenya 2)
Gareth_Rasberry - South Africa 3)
Alan Manson - South Africa 4)
Francesco_Veronesi - Kenya
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male



Weaver, Speke's Ploceus spekei Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 7) Joseph Mochoge - Eburu Kenya
2, 6) Dick Daniels - Keekorok Lodge in the Masai Mara, Kenya
3, 4) Dick Daniels - Tanzania 5)
Carol Foil - Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
1) Juvenile male 3 - 7) Male






Weaver,_Strange Ploceus alienus Found: DR Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
Image by: 1)
P_Khoo 2)
Tom_Tarrant - Uganda

Weaver,_Tanzanian_Masked- Ploceus reichardi Found: Tanzania, Zambia
Image by: 1)
Jan_Knoop
Weaver, Taveta-Golden Ploceus castaneiceps Found: Africa (Kenya, Tanzaniz)
IImage by: 1)
Dick Daniels - specimen in
Nairobi National Museum, Kenya
2, 6, 7, 8) Dick - Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle 3)
Trisha Shears - Binder Park Zoo 4)
Dick -
National Aviary 5)
Sandy Cole -
National Aviary
1) Pair 2) Female 3 - 8) Male







Weaver,_Usambara Ploceus nicolli Found: Tanzania
Image by: 1)
Nik_Borrow
Weaver,_Vieillot's_Black Ploceus nigerrimus Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Francesco_Veronesi - Ghana 2)
Dave_Curtis - Kenya 3)
Bernard_Dupont - Cameroon


Weaver, Village also Black-headed Weaver
Ploceus cucullatus Found: Africa
Ploceus melanocephalus is also called
Black-headed Weaver. To avoid confusion,
Ploceus cucullatus should only be called Village Weaver.
Image by: 1) Silvain de Munck - Rotterdam Zoo 2)
Alan
Fossé 3)
LaurentEchiniscus - Reunion Island 4)
Charles_J_Sharp 5)
Hauke Koch 6, 7) Dick Daniels -Kenya
1) Breeding female 2) Eclipse female 3) Nonbreeding female 4 - 7) Male






Weaver, Vitelline Masked Ploceus vitellinus Found:
Africa
Image by:
1, 2, 3) Dick Daniels - Tanzania 4)
Tarique_Sani - Tanzania
1) Female 2, 3, 4) Male



Weaver, Weyns's Ploceus weynsi Found: Congo, Tanzania, Uganda
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - specimen in
Nairobi National Museum, Kenya
2, 3) Nik_Borrow - Uganda
1, 2, 3) Male


Weaver,_Yellow-capped Ploceus dorsomaculatus Found: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon
Image by: 1)
hbw.com
Weaver,_Yellow-legged Ploceus flavipes Found: DR Congo
Image by: 1)
Flavio_Guglielmino
Weaver,_Yellow-mantled Ploceus tricolor Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Francesco_Veronesi - Ghana 2)
Julie_Langford - Cameroon 3)
Brendan_Ryan - Ghana


Genus Ploceus Found: Asia
Typical Weavers
Weaver,_Asian_Golden- Ploceus hypoxanthus Found: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Image by: 1)
Thet_Zaw_Naing - Myanmar 2)
David_Cook - Thailand 3)
Hiyashi_Haka 4)
Francesco_Veronesi - Thailand



Weaver,_Baya Ploceus philippinus Found: Indian subcontinent, China, southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia
Image by: 1)
Imran_Shah - Pakistan 2)
Vijay_Ismavel 4)
Magentic_Manifestations 6)
Tarique_Sani 3, 5) Shantanu_Kuveskar - Insia
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male





Weaver,_Black-breasted also
Bengal Weaver Ploceus benghalensis Found: Indian subcontinent
Image by: 1)
Aaron_Maizlish - India 2)
JM_Garg - India 3)
Viral_Patel - India 4)
Imran_Shah- Pakistan
1) Female 3, 4) Male



Weaver,_Finn's also
Yellow Weaver Ploceus megarhynchus Found: India, Nepal
Image by: 1)
Sumit_Sen 2)
Dibyendu_Ash 3)
Koshy_Koshy - India
1) Female 2, 3) Breeding male


Weaver,_Streaked Ploceus manyar Found: south Asia
Image by: 1)
Sarala_Gamage - Sri Lanka 2)
JM_Garg - India 3)
Shanaka_Aravinda - Sri Lanka 4)
Imran_Shah - Pakistan 5)
Pkspks - India
1) Female or juvenile
2) nonbreeding male 5) Breeding male




Genus Pseudonigrita
Found: Africa
Weaver, Black-capped Social Pseudonigrita cabanisi Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - Tanzania 2)
Dick - specimen in
Nairobi National Museum, Kenya
3, 4)
Steve Garvie - Buffalo Springs NP, Kenya.
1) Female 2 - 4) Male



Weaver,_Gray-capped_Social also
Gray-headed Social Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Shyamal 2, 3) Dick Daniels - Tanzania 4)
Steve Garvie - Kenya
5) Dick - Kenya 6)
Allan_Hopkins - Tanzania





Genus Sporopipes Found: Africa
Finch, Scaly-feathered also
Scaly Weaver Sporopipes squamifrons Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Jerry Oldenettel - Namibia 2)
Attis1979 3)
Tude_e_Joao - Botswana 4)
benoit_nabholz



Weaver, Speckle-fronted Sporopipes frontalis Found:
Africa
Image by:
1, 2, 3) Dick Daniels - slightly north of Masai Mara, Kenya 4)
Dick - Tanzania


