| Grey-capped social weaver | |
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| In Amboseli, Kenya | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Pseudonigrita |
| Species: | P. arnaudi
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudonigrita arnaudi | |
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| Synonyms | |
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The grey-capped social weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi) is a sparrow-like liver-colored bird, with a pale grey crown, a dark grey bill, a whitish eye-ring, horn-colored legs, with some black in the wing and a light terminal band in the tail, that builds roofed nests made of straws, breeds in colonies in thorny Acacia trees, and feeds in groups gathering grass seeds and insects. Male and female have near identical plumage. DNA-analysis confirms it is part of the weaver family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Pseudonigrita arnaudi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22718718A94593477. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718718A94593477.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). Conspectus generum avium (in Latin). Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, Netherlands]: E.J. Brill. p. 444.