🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Village Weaver live?

Ploceus cucullatus has 234,083 records in 73 countries and territories, from 1839 to 2026. Most records come from South Africa.

AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesPloceidaePloceus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
South Africa 113,634
Kenya 20,470
Uganda 13,649
Nigeria 12,795
Gambia 9,591
Ghana 6,376
Zimbabwe 5,742
Dominican Republic 4,929
Senegal 4,118
Tanzania 3,999
Zambia 3,012
Rwanda 2,938
Réunion 2,808
Ethiopia 2,739
Eswatini 2,739
Mauritius 2,073
Mozambique 1,999
Malawi 1,911
DR Congo 1,711
Cameroon 1,673
Venezuela 1,433
Botswana 1,332
Benin 1,318
Namibia 1,197
Guinea-Bissau 1,049
Gabon 1,037
Côte d'Ivoire 860
Haiti 846
Congo 744
Burkina Faso 625
Angola 572
Liberia 558
Guinea 480
Equatorial Guinea 438
Sierra Leone 423
Togo 355
Taiwan 260
Mali 240
Chad 141
Martinique 131

Showing the top 40 of 73 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.