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 Post subject: Weavers: Spectacled Weaver
Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:20 pm 
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Lower Sabie (Oct'06)

A shy weaver that is more often heard than seen. The male Spectacled Weaver (Ploceus ocularis) (15-16 cm) is a yellow weaver with a distinctive black bib and in both sexes, a burnt-orange wash over the head, sharp, pointed black bill, pale yellow eyes and a slender black mask.

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Photographed in Tamboti, May 2007

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Yolandé Oelsen
 Post subject: Spectacled Weaver
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I took these photo's. Please can someone just help me to ID them?
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Olive-headed Weaver?

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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - General Birds
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The weaver looks like a male Cape Weaver to me, with the clear orangy wash over the face. Dunno where you saw the bird, but Olive-headed Weaver can only be found in Mozambique (in Southern Africa). It has a golden yellow crown and orange-brown throat.


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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - General Birds
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Where did you see the Weaver?

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Yolandé Oelsen
 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - General Birds
Unread postPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:44 am 
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I saw the weaver in Letaba camp.

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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - General Birds
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Cape Weavers are exceptionally scarce for Kruger!

They are listed as a possible vagrant in Kruger.

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Oops, it seems that the black extends behind the eye and now we know you saw it in Letaba it is slowly but surely morphing into a Spectacled Weaver. :wink:


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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - General Birds
Unread postPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:54 am 
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The back and flanks are quite plain.

A Cape Weaver has a mottled back and the flanks are well marked.

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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - General Birds
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I will also settle for Spectacled Weaver.

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Yolandé Oelsen
 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - General Birds
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JoelR, compare these two photo's. In hindsight a have another pic, and of the same bird - and the second one I've ID as a male spectacled weaver.
Agree?
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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - General Birds
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Agree. :D

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 Post subject: WEAVER SPECTACLED
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Seen in Lower Sabie area! (2009)

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