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 LC    Northern Red Bishop* Id (Atlas):
    Euplectes franciscanus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Northern Red Bishop, Orange Bishop, Red Bishop, Franciscan Bishop

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Isert, 1789)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland seasonally wet / flooded grassland.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Introduced to Bermuda (B), Martinique (B), Puerto Rico (B), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (PE) (B).

Southern Mauritania, Senegambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, southern Mali, northern Sierra Leone, northern Liberia, Burkina Faso, northern Ivory Coast, Ghana (mainly inland, local on coast), Togo, Benin, south-western Niger, Nigeria (primarily north of the great rivers), southern Chad, northern Cameroon; northern Central African Republic; Sudan (especially R Nile and tributaries), western and north-eastern Ethiopia, western Eritrea and north-western and southern Somalia, south to north-eastern DRCongo, northern Uganda and western Kenya (L Baringo and L Bogoria). Introduced (escaped cagebirds) in south-western USA (near Los Angeles, in California; breeding reported also Arizona); introduced c. 1960 in West Indies, on Puerto Rico, with breeding on Martinique and Guadeloupe, and recorded on Jamaica and St Croix (Virgin Is). Reported introduction in Japan of E. orix more likely to be referable to present species.
 
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 (19)...)

 
Northern Red Bishop (Euplectes franciscanus) [XC389752]
     by Bram Piot from Lagune de Somone (Dalaal Diam), Senegal (song)

 
Northern Red Bishop (Euplectes franciscanus) [XC277737]
     by Bram Piot from Lake Ziway, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Has been regarded as forming a superspecies with Red Bishop (Euplectes orix) and Zanzibar Red Bishop (Euplectes nigroventris). Sometimes treated as conspecific with Red Bishop (Euplectes orix).

Birds in east of range sometimes recognized as subspecies pusillus (described from L Chew Bahir, in southern Ethiopia).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • franciscanus (Isert, 1789)   -  Southern Mauritania south to northern Liberia, east to Eritrea, Ethiopia, north-western and southern Somalia, north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Kenya.
  • pusillus (Hartert, 1901)   -  South-eastern Ethiopia and Somalia.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Northern Red Bishop (Euplectes franciscanus) - 10 files


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