🦋 Family

Passeridae

35 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Aves › Passeriformes › Passeridae

Gymnoris pyrgita (Heuglin, 1862)

Gymnoris pyrgita, the yellow-spotted bush sparrow, is a common Passeridae bird found in dry habitats across the Sahel and Horn of Africa.

Gymnoris dentata (Sundevall, 1850)

Gymnoris dentata (Sahel bush sparrow) is a small sparrow found across the African Sahel region in semi-arid savannah habitat.

Onychostruthus taczanowskii (Prjevalsky, 1876)

The white-rumped snowfinch Onychostruthus taczanowskii is a passerine sparrow found in Tibet and central-northern China.

Pyrgilauda ruficollis (Blanford, 1871)

Pyrgilauda ruficollis is a 15cm high-altitude snowfinch found in Tibet and adjacent areas, wintering further south.

Pyrgilauda davidiana J.Verreaux, 1870

Père David's snowfinch is a sparrow-family bird found in Mongolia, southern Siberia, and northern China, with a natural habitat of temperate grassland.

Pseudonigrita arnaudi (Bonaparte, 1850)

Pseudonigrita arnaudi, the grey-capped social weaver, is a small African weaver bird with three recognized subspecies.

Pseudonigrita cabanisi (Fischer & Reichenow, 1884)

Pseudonigrita cabanisi, the black-capped social weaver, is a small bird found in East African semi-arid acacia savannas.

Philetairus socius (Latham, 1790)

Philetairus socius, the sociable weaver, is a small, sexually indistinguishable bird native to arid savannas of southern Africa.

Plocepasser superciliosus (Cretzschmar, 1827)

Plocepasser superciliosus, the chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver, is a Ploceidae bird found across sub-Saharan Africa.

Plocepasser mahali A.Smith, 1836

Plocepasser mahali (white-browed sparrow-weaver) is a sedentary, colonial-nesting bird found across dry southern to northeastern Africa.

Histurgops ruficauda Reichenow, 1887

Rufous-tailed weaver (Histurgops ruficauda) is a monotypic songbird endemic breeding to Tanzania, with vagrants in Kenya.

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