Found widely in woodland, forest edge
and gardens of East, Middle and Southern
Africa...male has a black throat.
Ploceus ocularis
(L 5.5")
Lake Naivasha
Country Club
20Oct2014
Man boasts that there is nothing that he
cannot make, but when it comes to the
simple but elaborate nests that these birds
weave he accepts his defeat.
(Vaidyanathan Pushpagiri)
Ploceus is Greek for weaver;
ocularis is Latin for of the eyes.
© Peter
Kaestner
Macaulay
Library
Zorro-like bandit
mask is distinctive.