Kilifi weaver

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = Clarke's Weaver specimen RWD.jpg

| image_caption = specimen at Nairobi National Museum

| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Ploceus golandi |volume=2016 |page=e.T22718945A94603245 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718945A94603245.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}

| genus = Ploceus

| species = golandi

| authority = (Clarke, 1913)

| synonyms =

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The Kilifi weaver (Ploceus golandi), also known as Clarke's weaver, is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae.

It is endemic to Kenya.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

The name "Clarke's weaver" is after Captain Goland Clarke, brother of Stephenson Robert Clarke, who described the species.{{cite journal|author=Clarke, S.R.| year=1913| title=[A short account of a shooting expedition ... to the Lorian, British East Africa.]| journal= Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club|volume=31|pages= 31–33|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46633903 }}

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