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Cape Weaver

Ploceus capensis · Family Ploceidae

Ploceus capensis

Family Ploceidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Ploceidae
GBIF occurrence records
257,033
Countries and territories with records
16
Cape Weaver
Derek Keats from South Africa · Ploceus capensis -Johannesburg, South Africa -male-8.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Derek Keats from South Africa · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 257,033 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). South Africa accounts for 97.2% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.63% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Ploceus capensis combines the genus name Ploceus with the species epithet capensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 54 species of the genus Ploceus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ploceus velatus, Ploceus cucullatus and Ploceus philippinus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 96 species of the family Ploceidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ploceus velatus. Its record count is 6.6 times the family average (38,689). The family Ploceidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Ploceidae

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