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title: "Yellow-crowned Bishop"
description: "Euplectes afer — Uccelli. The yellow-crowned bishop (Euplectes afer) is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/yellow-crowned-bishop
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow-crowned Bishop

> Euplectes afer — Uccelli. The yellow-crowned bishop (Euplectes afer) is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara.

- Scientific name: *Euplectes afer*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi), `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 1410
- Wikidata: [Q1300963](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1300963)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13974](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13974)

## Names

- en: Yellow-crowned Bishop
- de: Tahaweber
- es: Obispo coronigualdo
- fr: Euplecte vorabé
- nl: Napoleonwever
- pt: Cardeal-tecelão-amarelo
- pl: Wikłacz słoneczny

## Countries with the most observations

PT (654), ZA (299), ES (88), BJ (43), KE (38), PR (36), ET (19), GM (13), NG (12), SN (9), GN (8), TZ (7)

## Summary

The yellow-crowned bishop (Euplectes afer) is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is highly sexually dimorphic in its breeding season, during which the male adopts a distinctive yellow and black plumage, contrasting with the female's predominantly brown coloration. Four subspecies are recognised.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-crowned_bishop

## Photo

![Yellow-crowned Bishop](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-crowned-bishop/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dave Brown · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70726344

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-crowned-bishop?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).