Black-winged Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus

Black-winged Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus

MaleBlack-winged Bishop, Mole, Ghana, June 2011 - click for larger image

Ghana
May / June 2011

The Black-winged Bishop is distributed in tropical Africa from southern Mauritania and Gambia south to Angola and east to Ethiopia and Tanzania. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in savanna and large forest clearings.

MaleBlack-winged Bishop, Winneba Plains, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

A member of the weaver family, the male, shown here, builds the woven, oval nest.

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