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 18 species which occur in Niger.
- White-billed Buffalo-Weaver Bubalornis albirostris
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Heuglin's Masked-Weaver Ploceus heuglini
- Vitelline Masked-Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Gray's Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Black-winged Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Orange Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Fan-tailed Widowbird Euplectes axillaris
- Yellow-shouldered Widowbird Euplectes macrourus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Niger
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