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List of Weavers of the World, in scientific alphabetical order

List of all weavers below, with links to species pages (where available).
The scientific and English names in this list follows the Handbook of birds of the world Vol 15, except that here Aldabra Fody (*) is kept as a separate species from the Red-headed Fody and this list includes 2 extinct Foudia species.

Weaver Wednesday is a new series started in June 2012 to describe each weaver species on a weekly basis, focusing on distribution, subspecies, and breeding records (read news item about this series here). Click in the last column to see the news item for those species already covered: the WW number shows the sequence in which the species was covered.

No.	Latin	Species	Weaver Wednesday
1	Amblyospiza albifrons	Thick-billed Weaver	WW 8
2	Anaplectes rubriceps	Red-headed Weaver	WW 1
3	Brachycope anomala	Bob-tailed Weaver	WW 14
4	Bubalornis albirostris	White-billed Buffalo-weaver	WW 28
5	Bubalornis niger	Red-billed Buffalo-weaver	WW 5
6	Dinemellia dinemelli	White-headed Buffalo-weaver	WW 13
7	Euplectes afer	Yellow-crowned Bishop (Golden Bishop)	WW 3
8	Euplectes albonotatus	White-winged Widowbird	WW 22
9	Euplectes ardens	Red-collared Widowbird	WW 19
10	Euplectes aureus	Golden-backed Bishop	WW 90
11	Euplectes axillaris	Fan-tailed Widowbird	WW 85
12	Euplectes capensis	Yellow Bishop	WW 73
13	Euplectes diadematus	Fire-fronted Bishop	WW 94
14	Euplectes franciscanus	Northern Red Bishop	WW 79
15	Euplectes gierowii	Black Bishop	WW 61
16	Euplectes hartlaubi	Hartlaub's Marsh Widowbird	WW 106
17	Euplectes hordeaceus	Black-winged Bishop (Fire-crowned Bishop)	WW 58
18	Euplectes jacksoni	Jackson's Widowbird	WW 55
19	Euplectes macroura	Yellow-mantled Widowbird (Yellow-backed)	WW 98
20	Euplectes nigroventris	Zanzibar Bishop	WW 34
21	Euplectes orix	Southern Red Bishop	WW 40
22	Euplectes progne	Long-tailed Widowbird	WW 82
23	Euplectes psammocromius	Montane Marsh Widowbird	WW 102
24	Foudia aldabrana	Aldabra Fody	WW 117
25	Foudia eminentissima	Red-headed Fody (Comoro / Red Forest Fody)	WW 114
26	Foudia flavicans	Rodrigues Fody	WW 87
27	Foudia madagascariensis	Red Fody (Madagascar Fody)	WW 70
28	Foudia omissa	Forest Fody	WW 110
29	Foudia rubra	Mauritius Fody	WW 64
30	Foudia sechellarum	Seychelles Fody	WW 4
31	Foudia delloni (extinct)	Reunion Fody
32	Foudia bruante (extinct)	Mordore
33	Histurgops ruficauda	Rufous-tailed Weaver	WW 15
34	Malimbus ballmanni	Gola Malimbe	WW 96
35	Malimbus cassini	Cassin's Malimbe	WW 108
36	Malimbus coronatus	Red-crowned Malimbe	WW 52
37	Malimbus erythrogaster	Red-bellied Malimbe	WW 112
38	Malimbus ibadanensis	Ibadan Malimbe	WW 116
39	Malimbus malimbicus	Crested Malimbe	WW 100
40	Malimbus nitens	Blue-billed Malimbe	WW 12
41	Malimbus racheliae	Rachel's Malimbe	WW 104
42	Malimbus rubricollis	Red-headed Malimbe	WW 92
43	Malimbus scutatus	Red-vented Malimbe	WW 46
44	Pachyphantes superciliosus	Compact Weaver	WW 9
45	Philetairus socius	Sociable Weaver	WW 16
46	Plocepasser donaldsoni	Donaldson-Smith's Sparrow-weaver	WW 37
47	Plocepasser mahali	White-browed Sparrow-weaver	WW 2
48	Plocepasser rufoscapulatus	Chestnut-mantled Sparrow-weaver	WW 67
49	Plocepasser superciliosus	Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver	WW 31
50	Ploceus albinucha	Maxwell's Black Weaver	WW 109
51	Ploceus alienus	Strange Weaver	WW 29
52	Ploceus angolensis	Bar-winged Weaver	WW 83
53	Ploceus aurantius	Orange Weaver	WW 51
54	Ploceus aureonucha	Golden-naped Weaver	WW 75
55	Ploceus badius	Cinnamon Weaver	WW 59
56	Ploceus baglafecht	Baglafecht Weaver	WW 99
57	Ploceus bannermani	Bannerman's Weaver	WW 81
58	Ploceus batesi	Bates's Weaver	WW 88
59	Ploceus benghalensis	Black-breasted Weaver (Bengal Weaver)	WW 84
60	Ploceus bertrandi	Bertram's Weaver	WW 80
61	Ploceus bicolor	Dark-backed Weaver	WW 35
62	Ploceus bojeri	Golden Palm Weaver	WW 45
63	Ploceus burnieri	Kilombero Weaver	WW 18
64	Ploceus capensis	Cape Weaver	WW 32
65	Ploceus castaneiceps	Taveta Golden Weaver	WW 36
66	Ploceus castanops	Northern Brown-throated Weaver	WW 74
67	Ploceus cucullatus	Village Weaver	WW 63
68	Ploceus dichrocephalus	Juba Weaver	WW 95
69	Ploceus dorsomaculatus	Yellow-capped Weaver	WW 91
70	Ploceus flavipes	Yellow-legged Weaver	WW 111
71	Ploceus galbula	Rüppell's Weaver	WW 17
72	Ploceus golandi	Clarke's Weaver	WW 62
73	Ploceus grandis	Giant Weaver	WW 86
74	Ploceus heuglini	Heuglin's Masked Weaver	WW 69
75	Ploceus hypoxanthus	Asian Golden Weaver	WW 39
76	Ploceus insignis	Brown-capped Weaver	WW 78
77	Ploceus intermedius	Lesser Masked Weaver	WW 20
78	Ploceus jacksoni	Golden-backed Weaver	WW 47
79	Ploceus katangae	Katanga Masked Weaver	WW 113
80	Ploceus luteolus	Little Weaver	WW 50
81	Ploceus manyar	Streaked Weaver	WW 101
82	Ploceus megarhynchus	Finn's Weaver	WW 77
83	Ploceus melanocephalus	Yellow-backed (Black-headed) Weaver	WW 107
84	Ploceus melanogaster	Black-billed Weaver	WW 60
85	Ploceus nelicourvi	Nelicourvi Weaver	WW 21
86	Ploceus nicolli	Usambara Weaver	WW 103
87	Ploceus nigerrimus	Vieillot's Black Weaver	WW 27
88	Ploceus nigricollis	Black-necked Weaver	WW 65
89	Ploceus nigrimentus	Black-chinned Weaver	WW 42
90	Ploceus ocularis	Spectacled Weaver	WW 24
91	Ploceus olivaceiceps	Olive-headed Weaver	WW 53
92	Ploceus pelzelni	Slender-billed Weaver	WW 41
93	Ploceus philippinus	Baya Weaver	WW 97
94	Ploceus preussi	Preuss's Weaver	WW 93
95	Ploceus princeps	Principe Golden Weaver	WW 56
96	Ploceus reichardi	Tanganyika Masked Weaver	WW 72
97	Ploceus rubiginosus	Chestnut Weaver	WW 26
98	Ploceus ruweti	Lufira Masked Weaver	WW 115
99	Ploceus sakalava	Sakalava Weaver	WW 30
100	Ploceus sanctithomae	Sao Tome Weaver	WW 66
101	Ploceus spekei	Speke's Weaver	WW 44
102	Ploceus spekeoides	Fox's Weaver	WW 105
103	Ploceus subaureus	African Golden Weaver (Yellow Weaver)	WW 23
104	Ploceus subpersonatus	Loanga Weaver	WW 57
105	Ploceus taeniopterus	Northern Masked Weaver	WW 71
106	Ploceus temporalis	Bocage's Weaver	WW 68
107	Ploceus tricolor	Yellow-mantled Weaver	WW 54
108	Ploceus velatus	Southern Masked Weaver	WW 10
109	Ploceus vitellinus	Vitelline Masked Weaver	WW 48
110	Ploceus weynsi	Weyns's Weaver	WW 89
111	Ploceus xanthops	Holub's Golden Weaver	WW 33
112	Ploceus xanthopterus	Southern Brown-throated Weaver	WW 38
113	Pseudonigrita arnaudi	Grey-headed Social-weaver	WW 25
114	Pseudonigrita cabanisi	Black-capped Social-weaver	WW 6
115	Quelea cardinalis	Cardinal Quelea	WW 76
116	Quelea erythrops	Red-headed Quelea	WW 49
117	Quelea quelea	Red-billed Quelea	WW 11
118	Sporopipes frontalis	Speckle-fronted Weaver	WW 43
119	Sporopipes squamifrons	Scaly-feathered Finch	WW 7

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