Spectacled Weaver

When to see the Spectacled Weaver

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

Where to see the Spectacled Weaver

The map shades 22 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 South Sudan.

About the Spectacled Weaver

The spectacled weaver is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found widely in woodland, forest edge and gardens of central, eastern and south-eastern Africa, but is absent from the most arid regions and dense, primary rainforest. This common species breeds in solitary pairs, and both sexes are bright yellow, have an olive-yellow back, black "spectacles" and pale eyes. The male has a black throat.

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Easily confused with

Lesser Masked WeaverPloceus intermediusThe lesser masked weaver is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. Lesser Masked WeaverPloceus intermediusThe lesser masked weaver is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. Baglafecht WeaverPloceus baglafechtThe baglafecht weaver has a Total Body Length of 15 cm (5.9 in).