Finn's Weaver or Finn's Baya (Ploceus megarhynchus) is a species of weaver bird found in the Ganges and Brahmaputra valleys in India and Nepal. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Myxozoa (slime animals) Superphylum Deuterostomia (blastopore becomes anus) Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicatas Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Orders Many - see section below. ... Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ... Genera Many:see text The Weavers are small passerine birds related to the finches. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Allan Octavian Hume (June 6, 1829 - July 31, 1912) son of Joseph Hume was a Scottish civil servant and political reformer. ...
The habitat is tall grassland typically Typha or Phragmites reed covered swamps. Also in grasslands with Saccharum spontaneum.
They feed mostly on seeds, sometimes foraging on fallen seed on roadsides. They also take insects.
They breeds from May to September. The nest is built on top of trees or in reeds. The nest is different in structure from the other weaver species found in India but like in other weavers woven from think strips of leaves and and reeds. It is lined on the entire inside unlike the other weavers which line only the floor of the nest. Males strip the leaves of the nest tree making the globular nests clearly visible.
Males are successively polygamous, mating with 1 to 4 females. The clutch size is 2 to 4 eggs. The female alone incubates and the egg hatches in 14-15 days.
The species was first noted by Hume (1869) from captive birds.
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