Yellow-crowned Bishop - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by hopires
Ribatejo, Portugal, where bird is deemed introduced species.

Euplectes afer

Identification

Breeding male

• Black plumage
• Fluffy yellow crown, back rump, flanks and under tail-coverts
  

Non-breeding male and female

• White undersides, streaking on flanks
• Buffy-yellow eye brow
  

When the feathers are not puffed out, it looks slimmer and smaller

Distribution

Africa, south of the Sahara.

There is a large population of introduced birds in Portugal

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Euplectes afer has three subspecies:^[1]

• E. a. afer

• Southern Mauritania to Chad, Central African Republic, western Sudan, northern DRC and north-western Angola

Subspecies strictus
Photo by volker sthamer
Debre Zeid, Ethiopia

• E. a. strictus: narrow black nape band and all black underparts

• Highlands of Ethiopia

• E. a. taha: a broader black band and yellow feathers on the breast sides

• Southern Sudan, southern lowlands of Ethiopia and Somalia to South Africa

Habitat

Flooded grassland, lakesides and reed beds, breeding in the wetter spots.

References

Female
Photo by leon
Pilansberg, South Africa, January 2004

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-crowned Bishop. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-crowned_Bishop

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