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 LC    Brown-capped Weaver* Id (Atlas):
    Ploceus insignis

Description (10)
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Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe, 1891)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

South-eastern Nigeria, south-western Cameroon, Bioko I (Fernando Póo), south-western Central African Republic and south-western highlands of PRCongo; southern Sudan (Imatong Mts and Dongatona Mts), eastern DRCongo, western Rwanda, western Burundi, south-western and eastern Uganda, western Kenya and northern and western Tanzania; western Angola (Gabela, in Cuanza Sul).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

 
Brown-capped Weaver (Ploceus insignis) [XC450388]
     by Frank Lambert from Kirinyaga County, Kenya (?)

 
Brown-capped Weaver (Ploceus insignis) [XC283454]
     by Frank Lambert from Kirimia, Semuliki National Park, Bundibugyo, Western Region, Uganda (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Birds from Bioko I described as subspecies unicus, but appear inseparable from those on mainland. Similarly, proposed differences between western African and eastern African populations not supported in examination of museum material.


References
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Files:
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