Weavers and Allies
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Ploceidae
The weavers are small passerine birds related to the finches. They are seed-eating birds with rounded conical bills. 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. There are 116 species worldwide and 22 species which occur in Botswana.
- Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver Bubalornis niger
- Scaly Weaver Sporopipes squamifrons
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Social Weaver Philetairus socius
- Lesser Masked-Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Holub's Golden-Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Southern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus xanthopterus
- Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops (A)
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens (A)
- Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne
- Grosbeak Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Botswana
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