Endangered
Bates's Weaver
Ploceus batesi
Bates's Weaver is a perching bird in the family Ploceidae (order Passeriformes) — Ploceus batesi, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Males are distinctive in their yellow undersides, bright chestnut heads with limited black throats, and olive green backs.
Range and habitat
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is endemic to Cameroon, and is often regarded as inexplicably rare across its distribution.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
Bates's Weaver is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bates's Weaver, Wikidata item Q902258. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
