#1205 · 🐦 birds
Yellow-crowned Bishop
🇳🇱 Napoleonwever ·Euplectes afer
📍 Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
📍 Gert Sibande District Municipality, South Africa
📍 Marievale Bird Sanctuary, Sedibeng District Municipality, South Africa
📍 Эхланзени, Южная Африка
📍 Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
📍 90045, Los Angeles, CA, US
📍 Palmas Altas, Barceloneta, Puerto Rico
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ian White · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 2. © John G. Phillips · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © geavedder · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal:© Ben Zerante · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Gert Sibande District Municipality, South Africa:© John Gale · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Marievale Bird Sanctuary, Sedibeng District Municipality, South Africa:© Corrie du Toit · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Эхланзени, Южная Африка:© Pavel Shukov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal:© rwcannon57 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 90045, Los Angeles, CA, US:© emshaph · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Palmas Altas, Barceloneta, Puerto Rico:© coralaviles · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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. Three subspecies are recognised.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,429 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 15 g.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- Nederlands
- Napoleonwever
- scientific name
- Euplectes afer
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Ploceidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 759
- sightings worldwide
- 1,429
- GBIF records in NL
- 93
- weight
- 14.5 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1789 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Ploceidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 13974, Wikidata Q1300963, GBIF 2494097, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.