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 LC    Lesser Masked Weaver* Id (Atlas):
    Ploceus intermedius

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Lesser Masked Weaver, Lesser Masked-Weaver, Masked-weaver

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
12.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Rüppell, 1845

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, grassland and shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (40)...)

 
Lesser Masked Weaver (Ploceus intermedius) [XC429661]
     by Frank Lambert from Tarangire National Park, Tanzania (song)

 
Lesser Masked Weaver (Ploceus intermedius) [XC280566]
     by Peter Boesman from Punda Maria area, Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Relationships uncertain. Has been thought to be closest to Little Weaver (Ploceus luteolus) (when this believed to form a superspecies with Slender-billed Weaver (Ploceus pelzelni) and Loango Weaver (Ploceus subpersonatus)) or to Black-headed Weaver (Ploceus melanocephalus), but neither possibility seems likely.

Proposed subspecies beattyi (described from western Angola) and luebberti (from Damaraland, in north-central Namibia) synonymized with cabanisii.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • intermedius Rüppell, 1845   -  Djibouti, Ethiopia, north-western and southern Somalia, south-eastern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya (except north-east), north-eastern DRCongo, Rwanda, Burundi, and north-west, central and eastern Tanzania (except south-east).
  • cabanisii (Peters, W, 1868)   -  South-western PRCongo, coastal Angola, south-western Tanzania, south-eastern DRCongo, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, western and south-western Mozambique, northern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, northern and eastern South Africa and Swaziland.
  • beattyi Traylor, 1959   -  Arid coastal western Angola.



References
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Files:
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