Yellow-crowned Bishop

Hosts on Spekboom have recorded the Yellow-crowned Bishop at stays in or beside Kruger National Park, uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Golden Gate Highlands National Park, Mapungubwe National Park and Bontebok National Park and other reserves. A record means a host has seen it on the property or nearby, which makes these the places to base yourself; it is never a guarantee of a sighting on any given day.

The Yellow-crowned Bishop is most recorded in Gauteng (38% of records), Mpumalanga (17% of records), North West (13% of records), based on 319 iNaturalist observations. 77 places to stay on Spekboom in South Africa have recorded the Yellow-crowned Bishop on site or nearby.

Sightings of the Yellow-crowned Bishop peak from Nov to Mar, based on 319 iNaturalist records. You may still see it outside those months, sightings are just less frequent.

The yellow-crowned bishop (Euplectes afer) is a species of passerine bird in the family Ploceidae native to Africa south of the Sahara. It is highly sexually dimorphic in its breeding season, during which the male adopts a distinctive yellow and black plumage, contrasting with the female's predominantly brown coloration. Three subspecies are recognised.