Shama, Ghana
May 2011

The Orange Weaver is distributed in discontinuous areas from Sierra Leone in West Africa to Lake Victoria. It is found in mangroves, coastal lagoons and along major rivers.

The male has olive upperparts, a yellow-orange head and underparts with a black bill and a black line through the eye. The female, seen here in photo 5, has olive upperparts, a yellow throat and breast and a white belly. The bill is grey on the upper mandible and paler on the lower.

They nest colonially and the nest is built by the male and is egg-shaped with no entrance tunnel