Thick-billed Weaver

When to see the Thick-billed 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 Thick-billed Weaver

The map shades 22 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Somalia, Togo.

About the Thick-billed Weaver

The thick-billed weaver, or grosbeak weaver, is a distinctive and bold species of weaver bird that is native to the Afrotropics. It belongs to the monotypic genus Amblyospiza and subfamily Amblyospizinae.

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Easily confused with

Long-tailed WidowbirdEuplectes progneLong-tailed widowbirds exhibit distinct sexual dimorphism. Spectacled WeaverPloceus ocularisThe spectacled weaver is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. Spectacled WeaverPloceus ocularisThe spectacled weaver is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae.