11/6/04 Male on left, female on right.
LA Audubon trip with Dan Cooper. Ballona Wetlands, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles County, CA
LIFE LIST NOTES:
COMMON NAME: Orange Bishop
COMMON NAME: Orange Bishop
SPECIES: Euplectes franciscanus
FAMILY: Ploceidae (Weavers)
FAMILY: Ploceidae (Weavers)
LIFE LIST DATE: 11/6/2004
LOCATION: Ballona Wetlands, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles County, CA
From National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America:
HABITAT/BEHAVIOR: Native to sub-Saharan Africa; widely introduced. Established since the 1980s in Los Angeles and Phoenix areas, where it favors weedy areas, especially river bottoms.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Breeding male is bright orange-red with black cap, breast and belly; long tail coverts obscure tail. Females, immatures, and winter birds are streaked above.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Breeding male is bright orange-red with black cap, breast and belly; long tail coverts obscure tail. Females, immatures, and winter birds are streaked above.
VOICE: Complex song high and buzzy. Calls include a sharp tsip and a mechanical tsik tsik tsik.
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