Weavers, Widowbirds
Vitelline Masked Weaver
Ploceus vitellinus
The Vitelline Masked Weaver (Ploceus vitellinus) is a 20 g scrub bird that eats mostly seeds. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Weavers, Widowbirds
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Weight
- 20 g
- Habitat
- Shrubland
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 19
Recorded in Kenya, Tanzania, Gambia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Senegal, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Mali, Chad, Cameroon, Sudan, Somalia, Algeria, Benin, Mauritania, United Arab Emirates.
Where to see it: Air and Tenere National Nature Reserve (Niger); Abaarso, Somaliland (Somalia); Mansoor Hotel (Somalia); Gonse (Burkina Faso); Niono & L'Office Niger area (Mali).
Photo: (c) Brian Henderson, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist