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''Euplectes'' is a genus of passerine bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae. It contains the bishops and widowbirds. They are all native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is believed that all birds in the genus are probably polygynous. The genus ''Euplectes'' was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1829 with the southern red bishop as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''eu'' "fine" or "good" and the New Latin ''plectes'' "weaver". When choosing their mates, females within this genus will often choose males with longer tail lengths, even in species with comparatively shorter tail lengths. Species The genus contains 17 species. Aviculture The yellow-crowned bishop and northern red bishop are popular in aviculture Aviculture is the practice of keeping and breeding birds, especially of wild birds in captivity. Types There are various reasons that people get involved in aviculture. Some people breed birds to preserve a specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euplectes Orix - Tiergarten Schönbrunn 5
''Euplectes'' is a genus of passerine bird in the Ploceidae, weaver family, Ploceidae. It contains the bishops and widowbirds. They are all native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is believed that all birds in the genus are probably polygyny, polygynous. The genus ''Euplectes'' was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1829 with the southern red bishop as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''eu'' "fine" or "good" and the New Latin ''plectes'' "weaver". When choosing their mates, females within this genus will often choose males with longer tail lengths, even in species with comparatively shorter tail lengths. Species The genus contains 17 species. Aviculture The yellow-crowned bishop and northern red bishop are popular in aviculture. References External links * * Euplectes, Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Ploceidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Euplectes'' is a genus of passerine bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae. It contains the bishops and widowbirds. They are all native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is believed that all birds in the genus are probably polygynous. The genus ''Euplectes'' was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1829 with the southern red bishop as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''eu'' "fine" or "good" and the New Latin ''plectes'' "weaver". When choosing their mates, females within this genus will often choose males with longer tail lengths, even in species with comparatively shorter tail lengths. Species The genus contains 17 species. Aviculture The yellow-crowned bishop and northern red bishop are popular in aviculture Aviculture is the practice of keeping and breeding birds, especially of wild birds in captivity. Types There are various reasons that people get involved in aviculture. Some people breed birds to preserve a specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Euplectes'' is a genus of passerine bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae. It contains the bishops and widowbirds. They are all native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is believed that all birds in the genus are probably polygynous. The genus ''Euplectes'' was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1829 with the southern red bishop as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''eu'' "fine" or "good" and the New Latin ''plectes'' "weaver". When choosing their mates, females within this genus will often choose males with longer tail lengths, even in species with comparatively shorter tail lengths. Species The genus contains 17 species. Aviculture The yellow-crowned bishop and northern red bishop are popular in aviculture Aviculture is the practice of keeping and breeding birds, especially of wild birds in captivity. Types There are various reasons that people get involved in aviculture. Some people breed birds to preserve a specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ploceidae
Ploceidae is a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers, weaverbirds, weaver finches and bishops. These names come from the nests of intricately woven vegetation created by birds in this family. In most recent classifications, Ploceidae is a clade, which excludes some birds that have historically been placed in the family, such as some of the sparrows, but which includes the monotypic subfamily Amblyospizinae. The family is believed to have originated in the mid-Miocene. All birds of the Ploceidae are native to the Old World, most in Africa south of the Sahara, though a few live in tropical areas of Asia. A few species have been introduced outside their native range. Taxonomy and systematics The family Ploceidae was introduced (as Ploceïdes) by the Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1836. Phylogenetic studies have shown that the family is sister to a clade containing the families Viduidae and Estrildidae Their common ancestor lived in the middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euplectes Macrourus
The yellow-mantled widowbird (''Euplectes macroura''), also known as the yellow-backed widow, is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is the type species of the genus ''Euplectes'', originally named for the city of Ouidah in Benin. Nowadays the name ''whydah'' (from "Ouidah") is however applied to some species in the Viduidae. Description Males are larger than females and acquire longer tails and striking black and golden yellow plumages in the breeding season. The mantle colour is either golden yellow, or in the case of the northeastern race, ''E. m. macrocercus'', black. The yellow shoulders persist in all male plumages, whether breeding or non-breeding. Range and habitat Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. It is widely distributed in Africa, and is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Bishop
The black bishop (''Euplectes gierowii'') is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. Three subspecies are recognised. Taxonomy The black bishop was first described by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1880 and named after H. Gierow, a Swedish explorer and collector in Angola. It is sometimes placed with ''E. aureus'' and ''E. hordeaceus'' in a separate genus, ''Groteiplectes''. A study of the molecular phylogeny of bishops and widowbirds published in 2008 found that it formed part of a clade along with the fire-fronted bishop (''E. diadematus''), black-winged red bishop (''E. hordeaceus''), northern red bishop (''E. franciscanus''), southern red bishop (''E. orix''), Zanzibar red bishop (''E. nigroventris'') and red-collared widowbird (''E. ardens''). An alternate common name is Gierow's bishop. Subspecies Three subspecies of the black bishop are now recognized. * ''E. g. ansorgei'' ( E. Hartert, 1899), or n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow Bishop
The yellow bishop (''Euplectes capensis''), also known as Cape bishop, Cape widow or yellow-rumped widow, is a resident breeding bird species in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This common weaver occurs in less arid vegetated areas, such as fynbos, moist grassland and bracken-covered valleys at altitudes from sea level to the Ethiopian highlands. Taxonomy In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the yellow bishop in his ''Ornithologie'' based on a specimen collected from the Cape of Good Hope. He used the French name ''Le pinçon du Cap de Bonne Espérance'' and the Latin ''Fringilla Capitis Bonae Spei''. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen. Although Brisson coined Latin names, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Red Bishop
The southern red bishop or red bishop (''Euplectes orix'') is a small passerine bird belonging to the bishop and widowbird genus '' Euplectes'' in the weaver family, the Ploceidae. It is common in wetlands and grassland in Africa south of the Equator. North of the Equator, it is replaced by the northern red bishop or orange bishop (''E. franciscanus'') which was formerly regarded as a subspecies of this species. Taxonomy In 1751 the English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration and a description of the southern red bishop in the fourth volume of his ''A Natural History of Uncommon Birds''. He used the English name "The Grenadier". Edwards based his hand-coloured etching on a live bird kept at the home of George Shelvocke in Greenwich. Edwards was told that the bird had come from Angola. When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his '' Systema Naturae'' for the tenth edition, he placed the southern red bishop with the buntings in the genus ''Emberi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passerine
A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by the arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back), which facilitates perching. With more than 140 families and some 6,500 identified species, Passeriformes is the largest clade of birds and among the most diverse clades of terrestrial vertebrates, representing 60% of birds.Ericson, P.G.P. et al. (2003Evolution, biogeography, and patterns of diversification in passerine birds ''J. Avian Biol'', 34:3–15.Selvatti, A.P. et al. (2015"A Paleogene origin for crown passerines and the diversification of the Oscines in the New World" ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'', 88:1–15. Passerines are divided into three clades: Acanthisitti (New Zealand wrens), Tyranni (suboscines), and Passeri (oscines or songbirds). The passe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Red Bishop
The southern red bishop or red bishop (''Euplectes orix'') is a small passerine bird belonging to the bishop and widowbird genus '' Euplectes'' in the weaver family, the Ploceidae. It is common in wetlands and grassland in Africa south of the Equator. North of the Equator, it is replaced by the northern red bishop or orange bishop (''E. franciscanus'') which was formerly regarded as a subspecies of this species. Taxonomy In 1751 the English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration and a description of the southern red bishop in the fourth volume of his ''A Natural History of Uncommon Birds''. He used the English name "The Grenadier". Edwards based his hand-coloured etching on a live bird kept at the home of George Shelvocke in Greenwich. Edwards was told that the bird had come from Angola. When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his '' Systema Naturae'' for the tenth edition, he placed the southern red bishop with the buntings in the genus ''Emberi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-winged Red Bishop
The black-winged red bishop (''Euplectes hordeaceus''), formerly known in southern Africa as the fire-crowned bishop, is a resident breeding bird species in tropical Africa from Senegal to Sudan and south to Angola, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. This common weaver occurs in a range of open country, especially tall grassland and often near water. It builds a spherical woven nest in tall grass. 2-4 eggs are laid. The black-winged red bishop is a stocky 13–15 cm bird. The breeding male is scarlet apart from his black face, belly and wings and brown tail. The conical bill is thick and black. He displays prominently, singing high-pitched twitters from tall grass, puffing out his feathers or performing a slow hovering display flight. The non-breeding male is yellow-brown, streaked above and shading to whitish below. It has a whitish supercilium. It resembles non-breeding male northern red bishop The northern red bishop or orange bishop (''Euplectes franciscanus'') i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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