The northern red bishop or orange bishop is a weaver bird belonging to the family Ploceidae.
It is a stocky 13–15 cm. bird. The conical bill is thick and black.
The breeding male is scarlet apart from his black head and waistcoat, and brown wings and tail.
The non-breeding male is pale yellow streaked above and shading to whitish below.
It has a buff supercilium. Females are similar but smaller. Young birds have wider pale fringes on their flight feathers.
It is a resident breeding bird species in Africa south of the Sahara Desert and north of the Equator.
It has been introduced to Puerto Rico, Martinique and Guadeloupe in the West Indies.
It is also naturalized in California, where numbers have grown from scattered sightings in the 1970s to estimates of more than 400 by 1997, and in Texas, where there is a suspected breeding population in Harris County.
Reference: Wikipedia