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 39 species which occur in Ethiopia.
- White-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis albirostris
- Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Donaldson-Smith's Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser donaldsoni
- Gray-headed Social-Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi
- Black-capped Social-Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Lesser Masked-Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Golden Palm Weaver Ploceus bojeri
- Rueppell's Weaver Ploceus galbula
- Northern Masked Weaver Ploceus taeniopterus
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Speke's Weaver Ploceus spekei
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Salvadori's Weaver Ploceus dichrocephalus
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Black Bishop Euplectes gierowii
- Black-winged Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Orange Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Red Bishop Euplectes orix
- Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Yellow-shouldered Widowbird Euplectes macrourus
- White-winged Widowbird Euplectes albonotatus
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Grosbeak Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Ethiopia
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