Black-capped Social Weaver
Photo: Pseudonigrita_cabanisi_-Buffalo_Springs_National_Park,_Kenya-8_(1).jpg: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland derivative work: Berichard (talk) · CC BY-SA 2.0

Weavers and Allies

Black-capped Social Weaver

Pseudonigrita cabanisi

LCLeast Concern
Family
Weavers and Allies (Ploceidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The black-capped social weaver (Pseudonigrita cabanisi) is a sparrow-like species of bird that has been assigned to the weaverbird family. It was originally described by Fisher and Reichenow, and later re-classified by the latter to the genus Pseudonigrita. Adults have a large black cap, ivory-colored bill, red eyes, brown back and wings, blackish-brown tail, white throat and underparts with a black midline, and dark horn-colored legs. It breeds in colonies and roofed nests with an entrance at the bottom in thorny trees such as acacias are constructed by the male from grass stems.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

Thornscrub of Ethiopia to southwestern Somalia, Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania.

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.