Yellow-crowned bishop
The yellow-crowned bishop (Euplectes afer) is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is highly sexually dimorphic in its breeding season, during which the male adopts a distinctive yellow and black plumage, contrasting with the female's predominantly brown coloration. Four subspecies are recognised.
| Yellow-crowned bishop | |
|---|---|
| A breeding male (E. afer subsp. taha) displaying near Lake Baringo, Kenya, and a captive female (nominate race) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Euplectes |
| Species: | E. afer |
| Binomial name | |
| Euplectes afer (Gmelin, 1789) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Taha afer | |
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