White-browed Sparrow-Weaver (Koringvoël)

Scientific name: Plocepasser mahali

mating call

The White-browed Sparrow-Weaver is a large brown and white weaver that is fairly common. It has a conspicuous broad white stripe from above the eye backwards, and 2 prominent white wing-bars and wing edgings. In flight, a large white patch on the rump and uppertail-coverts is visible.
The White-browed Sparrow-Weaver is the most widespread of the sparrow-weavers, occurring in southern and eastern Africa, . It has four subspecies: P. m. mahali in southern Africa, P. m. ansorgei in northern Namibia to Angola and P. m. pectoralis from Zimbabwe and Zambia to central Tanzania and P. m. melanorhynchus from northern Tanzania to Sudan.
The White-browed Sparrow-Weaver inhabits mopane and acacia savanna. <600 also="" and="" annual="" found="" fringes="" gardens.="" in="" is="" it="" mm="" p="" rainfall.="" riverine="">The White-browed Sparrow-Weaver feeds on insects and seeds.