| Finn's weaver | |
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| Male at Baur Reservoir, Uttarakhand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Ploceus |
| Species: | P. megarhynchus
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| Binomial name | |
| Ploceus megarhynchus Hume, 1869
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Finn's weaver (Ploceus megarhynchus), also known as Finn's baya and yellow weaver is a weaver bird species native to the Ganges and Brahmaputra valleys in India and Nepal. Two subspecies are known; the nominate subspecies occurs in the Kumaon area and salimalii in the eastern Terai.
The species was described and given its binomial name by Allan Octavian Hume based on a specimen obtained at Kaladhungi near Nainital.
- ^ BirdLife International (2021). "Ploceus megarhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22719011A201132570. Retrieved 11 November 2021.