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Golden palm weaver

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ1308664 ↗
Source-derived summary

The golden palm weaver (Ploceus bojeri) is a species of bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae. It is found in eastern Africa.

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Golden palm weaver - Species text in Weaver Watch.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Golden palm weaver” is species of bird. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Golden, palm and weaver, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 34-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Golden, palm and weaver is the immediate research focus.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1308664. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Golden palm weaver” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.