Red-billed Quelea
Quelea quelea
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyPloceidae (Weavers and Allies)
- GenusQuelea (Queleas)
- SpeciesQuelea quelea (Red-billed Quelea)
Closest Relatives at Serengeti National Park
Cardinal Quelea
Quelea cardinalis
Red-headed Quelea
Quelea erythrops
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
Dinemellia dinemelli
Speckle-fronted Weaver
Sporopipes frontalis
Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Bubalornis niger
Lesser Masked-Weaver
Ploceus intermedius
Vitelline Masked-Weaver
Ploceus vitellinus
Village Weaver
Ploceus cucullatus
White-winged Widowbird
Euplectes albonotatus
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Euplectes axillaris
Speke's Weaver
Ploceus spekei
Red-headed Weaver
Anaplectes rubriceps
📅 Monthly Probability
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there
Parks Where Found
Quick answers
What are the chances of seeing a Red-billed Quelea in Serengeti National Park?
About 3% of visitor-days record a Red-billed Quelea sighting in Serengeti National Park, based on 282 observer-days of citizen-science data from GBIF.
When is the best time to see Red-billed Quelea in Serengeti National Park?
December has the highest sighting rate for Red-billed Quelea in Serengeti National Park in our monthly data.