Endangered
Finn's Weaver
Ploceus megarhynchus
Finn's weaver, 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.
Appearance
Finn's weaver, 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.
Published measurements include mass about 37.
Range and habitat
Two subspecies are known. The nominate subspecies occurs in the Kumaon area and salimalii in the eastern Terai.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Finn's weaver breeds from May to September. It builds a nest on top of trees or in reeds.
The nest is different in structure from the other weaver species found in India, but as in other weavers, woven from thin strips of leaves and reeds. This species lines the entire inside of the nest, unlike the other weavers, that line only the floor of the nest.
In crisis
Finn'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 Finn's Weaver, Wikidata item Q1314032. 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.
