Home Log Out
Birdpedia - Australia         | Home | Birds | Calendar | Reserves | Field Trips | Sightings | Reports | Contacts | [HBW - BirdLife (v3)] 30/03/2024 01:15:04 AM
Species Database
Find
Quick Links
News
 
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] Print... Email... 

 LC    White-billed Buffalo-weaver* Id (Atlas):
    Bubalornis albirostris

Description (10)
Image of White-billed Buffalo-weaver
 

Other Names (World)
White-billed Buffalo-Weaver, Common Buffalo-weaver, Black Buffalo-weaver, White-billed Buffalo Weaver

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1817)

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda.

Southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, north-eastern Guinea-Bissau and Guinea eastern in a narrow band south of desert to central Chad and on to central Sudan, south-western Eritrea and western Ethiopia, south to north-eastern Uganda and north-western Kenya.
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (17)...)

 
White-billed Buffalo Weaver (Bubalornis albirostris) [XC421002]
     by Bram Piot from N\u00e9b\u00e9, Diourbel, Senegal (call)

 
White-billed Buffalo Weaver (Bubalornis albirostris) [XC378460]
     by Bram Piot from Karfiguela, Como\u00e9, Burkina Faso (call, song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Red-billed Buffalo-weaver (Bubalornis niger), and previously the two were normally considered conspecific. In the past, subspecies intermedius of Red-billed Buffalo-weaver (Bubalornis niger) was on occasion erroneously placed within present species.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for White-billed Buffalo-weaver (Bubalornis albirostris) - 10 files


More Information

BirdLife International

For more information about the White-billed Buffalo-weaver see... Show Articles BirdLife International Species Factsheet.


Articles about the White-billed Buffalo-weaver

If you would like to read any articles about the White-billed Buffalo-weaver... Show Articles Show Articles (0)


No Pictures of White-billed Buffalo-weaver

If Birdpedia has no pictures of White-billed Buffalo-weaver or you would like to see more, then try the following...

      Show External Images from BING From BING (6)


No Videos of White-billed Buffalo-weaver

If Birdpedia has no videos of White-billed Buffalo-weaver or you would like to see more, then try the following..

      Show External Videos From BING (0)