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Asian Golden Weaver Ploceus hypoxanthus
(species text)PHOWN priorities: none yet
Most recent PHOWN record for this species (recent thumbnails and full species listing at end of this web page):
Vm 5292
No of records in PHOWN for this species: 4
Colony size
Colony size for this species in PHOWN (min - mean - max, sample size) and published data:| PHOWN | Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 15 |
| 14 - 17.7 - 23 (n=3) | small colonies |
Nest site
Type of nest site for this species in PHOWN:| other - 1 tree - 3 |
Breeding seasonality
PHOWN Records per month for this species
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 15 | Jul in Myanmar, Jul-Sept in Thailand, Aug in Laos and Jan-Jun in Java |
Figure above right: breeding seasonality shown as records per month (if available), where months are numbered from January where January=1 etc.
The records are grouped into 6 regions: Safr=southern Africa, Cafr=central Africa, Wafr=western Africa, Eafr=eastern Africa, Asia=southern Asia, IO=Indian Ocean islands
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Breeding distribution
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Published breeding information
Breeding information based on Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 15.| bond Apparently monogmous, perhaps occasionally polygynous season Jul in Myanmar, Jul-Sept in Thailand, Aug in Laos and Jan-Jun in Java nsite strongly attached to vegetation over water or very swampy ground, often less than 1 m above surface, usually in reeds or bulrushes (Typha), less commonly in tree or shrub and then higher than 2 m above ground nbuild built initially by male, completed with assistance of female colsize small colonies clutch 2 eggs, rarely 3 eggcolour greyish-white, sometimes with a few spots eggsize average size of eleven eggs 18 x 13.5 mm (Java) incub incubation apparently by female only chicks chicks fed primarily by female (most often by regurgitation), only occasionally by male |
Thumb-nails of most recent PHOWN records
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Vm 5292 |  Vm 1255 |  Vm 1254 |  Vm 1253 |
List of all PHOWN records for this species
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1253, 2009-7-30,16,Thailand, a fishery pond by a temple near the gulp of Thailand, Sankamethawee W; Niti Sukumal, tree
1254, 2010-8-24,14,Thailand, Fishery pond near the temple, Sankamethawee W; Niti Sukumal, tree
1255, 2011-4-23,23,Thailand, rice field, flood plain near the river , Sankamethawee W, tree
5292, 2008-7-5,0,Thailand, Lumlukka, Pathum Thani, Ericsson, Peter , other
All PHOWN news items relating to this species
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Weaver Wednesday [131] - Discovery [14]: Asian Golden Weaver (2014-12-17)
Weaver Wednesday [39]: Asian Golden Weaver (2013-03-13)