Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver

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| image = Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver - Murchison Falls NP - Uganda 06_5164 (22662525490).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Plocepasser superciliosus |volume=2016 |page=e.T22718695A94592657 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718695A94592657.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Plocepasser superciliosus

| authority = (Cretzschmar, 1827)

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The chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver (Plocepasser superciliosus) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae.

It is found in Africa south of the Sahara, from Senegal and Gambia to Eritrea, Ethiopia{{cite book |last1=Aerts |first1=R. |last2=Lerouge |first2=F. |last3=November |first3=E. |title=Birds of forests and open woodlands in the highlands of Dogu'a Tembien. In: Nyssen J., Jacob, M., Frankl, A. (Eds.). Geo-trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains - The Dogu'a Tembien District |date=2019 |publisher=SpringerNature |isbn=978-3-030-04954-6 |url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030049546}} and western Kenya.