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Alternative name: Yellow Weaver

Male in non-breeding plumage.
Photo by John Dempsey
Mkuze Game Reserve, South Africa, August 2003

Ploceus subaureus

[edit] Identification

Golden yellow bird, dark eye, horn coloured beak.

[edit] Distribution

Africa
Eastern Africa: Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Malawi
Southern Africa: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland

[edit] Taxonomy

Photo by megan perkins
Gonubie, South Africa, January 2005

There are two subspecies:^1,2

• P. s. subaureus

• Eastern coast of South Africa, eastern Swaziland and Mozambique south of the Save River.

• P. s. aureoflavus

• Somalia to eastern Kenya, eastern Tanzania, Malawi and northern Mozambique

[edit] Habitat

Reed beds, coastal forest and suburbia, near rivers or dams.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

Forages for insects, seeds, flowers and nectar on the ground and in vegetation. Hawks for termite aletes.

[edit] Breeding

The male builds the tear-drop shaped nest which hangs from a tree. Two to four eggs are incubated by the female. Parasitised by Dideric Cuckoo.

[edit] References

1. Clements JF. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ & Ryan PG (eds) 2005. Robert's Birds of Southern Africa, 7th edition. John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, Cape Town, South Africa. ISBN 0620340533
3. Sinclair I & Ryan P. 2003. Birds of Africa south of the Sahara. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0620207299
4. Avibase

• List of references

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