🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Holub's Golden-Weaver live?

Ploceus xanthops has 40,715 records in 17 countries and territories, from 1870 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 9,140
Kenya 8,379
Zimbabwe 5,141
Botswana 3,554
Zambia 3,055
Namibia 3,006
Uganda 2,625
Rwanda 1,967
DR Congo 1,007
Tanzania 976
Malawi 628
Angola 510
Mozambique 372
Eswatini 263
Burundi 78
Congo 11
Gabon 3

Related animals

Others in the family Ploceidae.

Southern Masked-Weaver
Southern Masked-Weaver
498,846 records
Red-billed Quelea
Red-billed Quelea
423,896 records
Southern Red Bishop
Southern Red Bishop
386,317 records
Cape Weaver
Cape Weaver
256,463 records
Village Weaver
234,083 records
Spectacled Weaver
Spectacled Weaver
134,023 records
Fan-tailed Widowbird
83,364 records
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.