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White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Plocepasser mahali · Family Passeridae
Plocepasser mahali
Family Passeridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passeridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 200,403
- Countries and territories with records
- 21
About this species
This species has 200,403 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (51.6%), Kenya (17.7%), Namibia (14.5%), Botswana (4.8%) and Zimbabwe (4.3%); together they account for 92.9% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.26% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Plocepasser mahali combines the genus name Plocepasser with the species epithet mahali. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Plocepasser; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Plocepasser superciliosus, Plocepasser donaldsoni and Plocepasser rufoscapulatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 47 species of the family Passeridae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Passer domesticus. Its record count is 29.1% of the family average (687,513). The family Passeridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.