P. intermedius would have a black forehead. This is probably the other
"masked weaver", P. velatus. Both were common yardbirds in a former
yard of mine.

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>Hi Tweets
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>Cliff Drake writes:
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>>I wanted to post this on April first, but I just got the picture up
>>today. Can someone look at http://www.jpj.net/~mallard/yellobrd.jpg and
>>tell me what bird this is? It was seen on Phinney Ridge in Seattle, aka
>>Woodland Park Zoo...
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>Looks like an adult male Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius, a savannah-lands
>weaver finch from southern Africa. Escaped cage bird fershur. Sorry. '-)
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>Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
>Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery, and change;
>mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
> Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
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