Black-necked Weaver (Ploceus nigricollis)

Other Names (World)
Black-necked Weaver, Spectacled Weaver(!), Swainson's Weaver (brachypterus)

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1805)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest, mangroves, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (30)...)

Black-necked Weaver (Ploceus nigricollis) [XC99021]
by Mike Nelson from Mankon Sacred Forest, Mankon, Cameroon (call)

Black-necked Weaver (Ploceus nigricollis) [XC99022]
by Mike Nelson from Mankon Sacred Forest, Mankon, Cameroon (song)

Subspecies
Often grouped with Spectacled Weaver (Ploceus ocularis) and Black-billed Weaver (Ploceus melanogaster) in a "spectacled weaver" superspecies. Nominate subspecies intergrades with brachypterus in Cameroon. Birds from Bioko I described as additional subspecies (po) on basis of longer and heavier bill; possibly worthy of recognition, but further study required.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

brachypterus Swainson, 1837 - Gambia and southern Senegal east to Cameroon, also Bioko I (Fernando Póo). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Olive-naped Weaver (Ploceus brachypterus).
nigricollis (Vieillot, 1805) - Cameroon east to southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania, and south to Angola and southern DRCongo.
melanoxanthus (Cabanis, 1878) - Southern Ethiopia, southern Somalia, central and eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania.
po Hartert, 1907 - Bioko I.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-necked Weaver (Ploceus nigricollis) - 10 files

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