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  • Red-billed Quelea, 1 of 6
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    (c) Lip Kee, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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    (c) Alastair Rae, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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    (c) Bernard DUPONT, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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    (c) Brian Kwok, all rights reserved

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    (c) Grant Reed, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) maritzasouthafrica, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Red-billed Quelea

Quelea quelea

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About

The red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea), also known as the red-billed weaver or red-billed dioch, is a small—approximately 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighing 15–26 g (0.53–0.92 oz)—migratory, sparrow-like bird of the weaver family, Ploceidae, native to Sub-Saharan Africa. It was named by Linnaeus in 1758, who considered it a bunting, but Ludwig Reichenbach assigned it in 1850 to the new genus Quelea. Three subspecies are recognised, with Quelea quelea quelea occurring roughly from Senegal to Chad, Q. q. aethiopica from Sudan...

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