Habitat is key when birding. Hint.
There’s more than enough in the photo below to take you straight to what family today’s bird belongs to, but from there things start to get a bit tricky.
The wider family features individuals that change their plumage during breeding and non-breeding seasons, which further complicates the issue, but I’ll leave it there before I give too much away.
Half-marks for the family, full-marks for the specific species…
Answers to be revealed in Friday’s Week in Pictures post.
Good luck.
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Spectacled weaver.
Lesser Masked Weaver
Lesser Masked Weaver
African Masked Weaver, immature male? I am not a birder, so this is a wild guess.
Hi, I think it‘s a Village Weaver (female).
Best Regards
Karl-Heinz
Yellow-Throated Apalis
Spectacled Weaver.
Hi James,
how about a spectacled weaver.
keep this up it is great.
Take care,
George
Lesser masked weaver
Female Lesser Masked Weaver?
This bird is a Lesser Masked Weaver (Ploceus intermedius). The general giss and yellow colouration gives it away as part of the weavers as well as the nest on the left hand side. Both the Southern Masked Weaver and Village Weaver are excluded as they both have red eyes. The Cape Weaver is eliminated as their whole body is yellow. The female Cape Weaver could have the correct colouration but usually has a dark eye. The uncommon pale eye variant is eliminated based on the leg colour.
Hi Declan, as you explain it, I agree with you that it must be a Lesser Masked Weaver.
Great
Female lesser masked weaver (or pre breeding male in moult – last years nest)
Ploceus xanthops
Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
My doubtful mind is saying Holub’s golden weaver..
Lesser Masked Weaver female
Finally one that I could recognize – I think A lesser masked weaver. I’ve always enjoyed seeing their nests.
Hello James!
I think the bird is the Southern or African Masked Weaver, a bird in the family Ploceidae. I think it is a juvenile male. I hope that I have given the right answer. This was a tricky one… one learns a lot! 😃