African Golden Weaver - BirdForum Opus

Male.
Photo © by peterday
St Lucia, South Africa, January 2019

Alternative name: Eastern Golden Weaver; Yellow Weaver -- but that name can also be used for Finn's Weaver

Identification

Golden yellow bird, male red eye and horn coloured beak, female brown eye and pink beak.

Female.
Photo © by John Dempsey
Mkuze Game Reserve, South Africa, August 2003

There are two subspecies:^1,2

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

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

Photo © by megan perkins
Gonubie, South Africa, January 2005

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

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.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Hockey, PAR, WRJ Dean, and PG Ryan, eds. 2005. Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa. 7th ed. Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. ISBN 978-0620340533
Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154
Avibase

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) African Golden Weaver. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/African_Golden_Weaver

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