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Location: South Africa.

Euplectes capensis

[edit] Identification

15 cm. Black, bright yellow lower back, rump, and shoulder patches, and brown edging to the wing feathers, short crest, thick conical black bill, short tail. In non-breeding plumage, the black becomes heavily streaked brown, and the bill is pale. The yellow shoulders and rump remain, and are a distinction from the female which lacks the contrasting colour patches.

[edit] Distribution

Eastern and Southern Africa.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Shrubland, heathland and moist grassland.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes seed, grain and some insects.

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