Weavers in Gambia (1 Viewer)

MarkHows said:

I saw what I thought were village weavers, but some had red eyes with black pupil and others had pure black eyes. They looked very similar apart from that, I know weavers at this time of year are quite hard to ID and it did take me some time to sort the species out.

Are these the same species or just variations?

Any comments appreciated

I will try to upload some photo's later

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Trevor Hardaker said:

Hi,

Female Village Weavers will show a dark brown iris until the end of their second year and this is what I suspect is happening here. You have non-breeding males with a young dark-eyed female.

Kind Regards
Trevor

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