Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus)
About the Village Weaver
The village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus), also known as the spotted-backed weaver or black-headed weaver (the latter leading to easy confusion with P. melanocephalus), is a bird species in the family Ploceidae found in much of sub-Saharan Africa. It has also been introduced to Portugal and Venezuela as well as to the islands of Hispaniola, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Mauritius and Réunion.
A real field recording of the Village Weaver. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Cameroon, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 136 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
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- Bar-winged WeaverPloceus angolensisprofile
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- Bertram's WeaverPloceus bertrandiprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.