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Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-Weaver (Plocepasser donaldsoni)

Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-Weaver
Photo: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-Weaver

Donaldson Smith's sparrow-weaver (Plocepasser donaldsoni) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in Africa from southern Ethiopia to central Kenya and southern Somalia. It was named in honor of the 19th-century American explorer Arthur Donaldson Smith. Donaldson-Smith's sparrow-weaver - Species text in Weaver Watch.

Source: Donaldson Smith's sparrow-weaver 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 7 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-ND · 2 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 Kenya in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.