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Ploceidae

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Noun1.Ploceidae - weaverbirds
family Ploceidae
bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
Oscines, Passeres, suborder Oscines, suborder Passeres - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds
weaver finch, weaverbird, weaver - finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
genus Ploceus, Ploceus - type genus of the Ploceidae
genus Vidua, Vidua - whydahs
genus Padda, Padda - a genus of Ploceidae
Estrilda, genus Estrilda - avadavats
genus Poephila, Poephila - grassfinches
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He found estrildids uniform among themselves and distant from Ploceidae (including Viduinae) and Fringillidae.
Skeletal characters and the systematics of Estrildid finches (Aves: ... by Webster, J. Dan / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
 
 
 
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