Donaldson Smith's sparrow-weaver

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Donaldson Smith's sparrow-weaver
In Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus:
Plocepasser
Species:
P. donaldsoni
Binomial name
Plocepasser donaldsoni
Sharpe, 1895

Donaldson Smith's sparrow-weaver (Plocepasser donaldsoni) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in Africa from southern Ethiopia to central Kenya and southern Somalia. It was named in honor of the 19th-century American explorer Arthur Donaldson Smith.[2]

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