🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Rüppell's Weaver live?

Ploceus galbula has 11,093 records in 18 countries and territories, from 1876 to 2026. Most records come from Oman.

Rüppell's Weaver
Rüppell's Weaver — Lee-nah / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
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
Oman 4,370
Saudi Arabia 3,116
Ethiopia 2,540
Djibouti 478
Somalia 214
Kuwait 141
Yemen 124
Eritrea 49
Bahrain 33
Sudan 11
South Sudan 5
United Arab Emirates 4
Belgium 2
Spain 2
Greece 1
Israel 1
Kenya 1
Senegal 1

Related animals

Others in the family Ploceidae.

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Cape Weaver
Cape Weaver
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Village Weaver
234,083 records
Spectacled Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
134,023 records
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Scaly Weaver
Scaly Weaver
83,270 records
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.