Speckle-fronted Weaver (Sporopipes frontalis)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Vagrant to Somalia.

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
A high-pitched 'sip sip' and a trilling flight call. Song is a high-pitched series of ascending trills.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)...)

Speckle-fronted Weaver (Sporopipes) [XC200031]
by Rory Nefdt from Mara Siria Camp, Mara Triangle, Kenya (call, contact call)

Speckle-fronted Weaver (Sporopipes frontalis) [XC288748]
by Peter Boesman from Paraa, Murchinson Falls National Park, NW Uganda, Uganda (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Scaly-fronted Weaver (Sporopipes squamifrons).

Proposed subspecies pallidior (described from Zinder, in southern Niger) synonymized with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

frontalis (Daudin, 1802) - South-western and south-eastern Mauritania, northern and western Senegal, Gambia, Mali (mainly drainage area of R Niger), north-western Burkina Faso, north-western Ghana (Mole region), northern Benin, west-central and southern Niger (including Aïr Massif) and northern Nigeria eastern in Sahel region to north-western Ethiopia and south-western Eritrea.
emini Neumann, 1900 - Southern Sudan, north-western and north-eastern Uganda and west-central Kenya south to central Tanzania.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Speckle-fronted Weaver (Sporopipes frontalis) - 10 files

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