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 26 species which occur in Sierra Leone.
- White-billed Buffalo-Weaver Bubalornis albirostris
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius
- Heuglin's Masked-Weaver Ploceus heuglini
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Vieillot's Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha
- Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Ballman's Malimbe Malimbus ballmanni
- Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus
- Gray's Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Black-winged Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Orange Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Yellow-shouldered Widowbird Euplectes macrourus
- Red-collared Widowbird Euplectes ardens
- Grosbeak Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Sierra Leone
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