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 52 species which occur in Uganda.
- White-billed Buffalo-Weaver Bubalornis albirostris
- White-headed Buffalo-Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Gray-headed Social-Weaver Pseudonigrita arnaudi
- Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Lesser Masked-Weaver Ploceus intermedius
- Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Black-billed Weaver Ploceus melanogaster
- Strange Weaver Ploceus alienus
- Holub's Golden-Weaver Ploceus xanthops
- Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius
- Northern Brown-throated Weaver Ploceus castanops
- Heuglin's Masked-Weaver Ploceus heuglini
- Northern Masked-Weaver Ploceus taeniopterus
- Vitelline Masked-Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Fox's Weaver Ploceus spekeoides (E)
- Vieillot's Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Weyns's Weaver Ploceus weynsi
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni
- Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha
- Forest Weaver Ploceus bicolor
- Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Red-bellied Malimbe Malimbus erythrogaster
- Gray's Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- 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
- Marsh Widowbird Euplectes hartlaubi
- Grosbeak Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Uganda
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