Slender-billed Weaver

When to see the Slender-billed Weaver

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Slender-billed Weaver

The map shades 15 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Zambia.

About the Slender-billed Weaver

The slender-billed weaver is a species of bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae. It is sparsely distributed across equatorial Africa, namely along the shoreline of the Gulf of Guinea and Congo River and the Lake Victoria region.

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Easily confused with

Rüppell's WeaverPloceus galbulaRüppell's weaver is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae, which is native to the northern Afrotropics. Rüppell's WeaverPloceus galbulaRüppell's weaver is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae, which is native to the northern Afrotropics. Golden-backed WeaverPloceus jacksoniMale Golden-backed Weaver body's are bright yellow, while their heads are black, their stomachs are orange-brown, and they have a hint of dark green on their wing feather.