Spectacled Weaver

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Ploceidae

Genus

Ploceus

eBird Code

spewea1

Subspecies (3)

• Ploceus ocularis crocatus

  Cameroon to far southern South Sudan and southwestern Ethiopia, southward to Angola and through East Africa (west of the Rift Valley) to northeastern Namibia, northern Botswana, Zambia (west of the Muchinga Mountains), and northwestern Zimbabwe

• Ploceus ocularis ocularis

  eastern South Africa, Eswatini, and Mozambique south of the Limpopo River

• Ploceus ocularis suahelicus

  eastern Kenya to eastern Tanzania, eastern Zambia, Malawi, and northern Mozambique