Yellow-crowned Bishop

Euplectes afer (Gmelin, JF, 1789)

Yellow-crowned Bishop, Euplectes afer, is a passerine of the weaver family that breeds across western, central, eastern and southern Africa. It is a bird of grasslands, vleis and pans, and also uses wheat and sorghum fields and weedy growth beside wetlands. In the breeding season the male is strikingly different from the female, with golden yellow and black plumage, while the female is mainly brown. The bill is short and conical in both sexes. Four subspecies are recognised.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Ploceidae — Weavers, Widowbirds

Breeding range

Africa: w, c, e, s