Slender-billed Weaver (Ploceus pelzelni)

Other Names (World)
Slender-billed Weaver, Common Slender-billed Weaver, Little Weaver(!)

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1887)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and moist lowland forest, dry savanna, inland wetlands.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

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 (5)...)

Slender-billed Weaver (Ploceus pelzelni) [XC811137]
by id from West Kolwa (near Kisumu), Kisumu Central, Kisumu County, Kenya (call)

Slender-billed Weaver (Ploceus pelzelni) [XC252920]
by James Bradley from Mweya, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kasese, Western Region, Uganda (song)

Subspecies
Proposed subspecies tuta (described from near Mwanza, in Tanzania) synonymized with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

monacha (Sharpe, 1890) - Southern Ivory Coast eastern along coast to western Cameroon, also riverine Gabon, PRCongo and western and southern DRCongo, north-western Angola and north-western Zambia.
pelzelni (Hartlaub, 1887) - North-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Slender-billed Weaver (Ploceus pelzelni) - 10 files

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