Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) [XC390403]
by Cedric Mroczko from kwakilusu,oloitoktok, Kenya (song)
Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) [XC600199]
by isaac kilusu from Mandegee farm, oloitoktok, Kenya (song, display song)
Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Giant Weaver (Ploceus grandis). Hybridizes with Vieillot's Black Weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus). Subspecies nigriceps sometimes considered to represent a separate species.
Proposed subspecies bohndorffi (described from Stanley Falls, in DRCongo), frobenii (from Lomami, in DRCongo) and graueri (from northern end of L Tanganyika) synonymized with nominate, femininus (from south-eastern Rwenzori, in Uganda) with abyssinicus, paroptus (from Sokoke, in coastal Kenya) with nigriceps, and dilutescens (from southern Mozambique) with spilonotus.
The following 8 subspecies are recognised:
cucullatus (Müller, 1776) - Southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, and southern and south-western Mali south to Liberia and Ivory Coast, east to southern Chad, northern Gabon, north-eastern PRCongo, Central African Republic and most of DRCongo. Also Bioko I (Fernando Póo).
collaris Vieillot, 1819 - Southern Gabon, southern PRCongo, western DRCongo and western Angola.
abyssinicus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) - South-western, southern and eastern Sudan, north, western and central Ethiopia, central Eritrea, Uganda and north-western Kenya.
nigriceps (Layard, EL, 1867) - South-eastern Somalia, southern Kenya, Tanzania, south-eastern DRCongo, eastern Angola, Zambia, Malawi, north-eastern Namibia (Caprivi region), northern and south-eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe and northern Mozambique.
spilonotus Vigors, 1831 - Southern Mozambique, Swaziland and eastern South Africa; occasional in Lesotho.
bohndorffi Reichenow, 1887 - Northern Gabon, Central African Republic, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, south-western South Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, and north-western Tanzania.
frobenii Reichenow, 1923 - Southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
graueri Hartert, 1911 - Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to Rwanda, Burundi and adjacent western Tanzania.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet