Black-billed Weaver (Ploceus melanogaster)
About the Black-billed Weaver
The black-billed weaver (Ploceus melanogaster) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It has multiple isolated elevated populations across sub-Saharan Africa: the Western High Plateau, the Albertine Rift montane forests and the East African montane forests. Black-billed weaver – Species text in Weaver Watch.
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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: 3 CC BY-NC-ND. 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 Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Baglafecht WeaverPloceus baglafechtrecording
- Dark-backed WeaverPloceus bicolorrecording
- Holub's Golden WeaverPloceus xanthopsrecording
- Streaked WeaverPloceus manyarrecording
- Village WeaverPloceus cucullatusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.