Bertram's weaver

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = HyphantornisBertrandiKeulemans.jpg

| image2 = The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region (1896) (14748527162), Ploceus bertrandi.jpg

| image2_caption = Illustrations of male and immature by Keulemans and female by Grönvold

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Ploceus bertrandi |volume=2016 |page=e.T22718765A94595028 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718765A94595028.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| taxon = Ploceus bertrandi

| authority = (Shelley, 1893)

| synonyms =

  • Hyphantornis bertrandi Shelley, 1893
  • Hyphantornis nyasae Shelley, 1894
  • Ploceus fülleborni Reichen, 1900
  • Ploceus nyasae Reichen, 1904

}}

Bertram's weaver (Ploceus bertrandi), sometimes called Bertrand's weaver, is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.

It is named after Bertram Lutley Sclater, the son of ornithologist Philip Lutley Sclater, who was a police commissioner in Malawi when Alexander Whyte discovered this species.{{cite book |last1=Boelens |first1=Bo |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |title=Whose Bird?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate |year=2003 |publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-10359-X}}{{cite journal|journal=The Ibis |series=8th series |volume= V (1)|issue= XVII|pages=1–29 |last= Shelley|first= George Ernest|title=I. List of Birds collected by Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S., in Nyassaland}}

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