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Species
Endangeredvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ploceus
- Mass
- 32
- Image
- Finn's Weaver Baur Reservoir Uttarand India 05.10.2014.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Endangered status
- Commons category
- Ploceus megarhynchus
- taxon name
- Ploceus megarhynchus
- taxon common name
- travnjačka pletilja
- litter size
- 2.8
- egg incubation period
- 14
- endemic to
- Kaziranga National Park
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Encyclopedic overview
Finn's weaver (Ploceus megarhynchus), also known as Finn's baya and yellow weaver is a weaver bird species native to the Ganges and Brahmaputra valleys in India and Nepal. Two subspecies are known; the nominate subspecies occurs in the Kumaon area and salimalii in the eastern Terai.
The species was described and given its binomial name by Allan Octavian Hume based on a specimen obtained at Kaladhungi near Nainital.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Finn's Weaver” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.