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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacNara" data-source="post: 3245336" data-attributes="member: 23290">I think that this has to be P. xanthops.The only thing against this really is the pale bill, which presumably indicates a juvenile (the eye-colour isn't clear in the photos in my opinion). The yellow in the photos is indeed very bright, and there is no orange under the throat as in an adult male. But there is no other possiblity. The bill shape is right for xanthops and quite wrong for Spectacled Weaver which some have suggested, and the colouration and facial pattern is wrong for anything but xanthops.For what it's worth, I think the pictures in Sasol for this bird are poor - far too bright and lemony, without the orange underthroat and the very thin black line (too thin to be called a stripe) from the back of the eye. These can be seen in the attached photo from Chobe last December, and in the picture in Birds of East Africa (much superior to Sasol's pictures).This line behind the eye can also be made out in the OP's bird (all three photos). It is less clear than in my adult photo which again suggests to me that this bird is a juvenile.</blockquote>