Ploceus castaneofuscus
Silhouette: PhyloPic
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The chestnut-and-black weaver (Ploceus castaneofuscus) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in West Africa from Sierra Leone to southern Nigeria. The chestnut-and-black weaver was formerly treated as a subspecies of Vieillot's black weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus). The species were split based on the striking differences in the colour of the plumage.
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakum National Park | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freetown | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore Zoo | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 2 | Wilhelma | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 3 | Bird Paradise | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 4 | Rainforest Wild Asia | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 5 | Tiergarten Bernburg | 🇩🇪 Germany |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Chestnut-and-black Weaver sighting in Kakum National Park on a given day, based on 150 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 66th most-seen of the 250 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and September
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Chestnut-and-black Weaver in Kakum National Park on a given day, against about 20% in February, June and November–December, the lowest months. Those are among Kakum National Park's wettest months, with about 210 mm of rain a month against 35 mm in January.
Between 3 and 6 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Chestnut-and-black Weaver sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kakum National Park, in our data
Kakum National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Chestnut-and-black Weaver sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Ploceus
The closest relatives of the Chestnut-and-black Weaver that you can see in Kakum National Park (genus Ploceus, Typical Weavers) are Maxwell's Black Weaver (about 30%), Yellow-mantled Weaver (about 30%) and Village Weaver (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Chestnut-and-black Weaver is recorded against all the birds logged in Kakum National Park (150 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
