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Yellow-crowned Bishop (Euplectes afer)

Yellow-crowned Bishop
Photo: Luiz Lapa from Oeiras, Portugal via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Yellow-crowned Bishop

The yellow-crowned bishop (Euplectes afer) is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is highly sexually dimorphic in its breeding season, during which the male adopts a distinctive yellow and black plumage, contrasting with the female's predominantly brown coloration. Four subspecies are recognised.

Source: Yellow-crowned bishop on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 49 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Belgium, Kenya, Portugal, Senegal in the xeno-canto catalogue.

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