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 LC    African Golden-Weaver* Id (Atlas):
    Ploceus subaureus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
African Golden Weaver, African Golden-Weaver, Yellow Weaver, African Yellow Weaver, Golden Weaver, Eastern Golden Weaver

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Smith, 1839

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical seasonally wet / flooded and dry grassland, inland wetlands. From sea-level - 1,300 m.

Range (Guide)
Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of].

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (23)...)

 
Eastern Golden Weaver (Ploceus subaureus) [XC455452]
     by Frank Lambert from Makindu (Hunter's Lodge), Kenya (call, song)

 
Eastern Golden Weaver (Ploceus subaureus) [XC510352]
     by Peter Boesman from Muheza outskirts, Tanga, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
Formerly thought to form a superspecies with Holub's Golden-Weaver (Ploceus xanthops), but the two differ in breeding behaviour and ecology, and ranges overlap.

Proposed subspecies tongensis (described from southern Mozambique) synonymized with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • aureoflavus Smith, A, 1839   -  South-eastern Kenya (southern from R Tana), coastal Tanzania (including Pemba I and Zanzibar), eastern Malawi and northern Mozambique.
  • subaureus Smith, 1839   -  Central and southern Mozambique southern along coast to extreme eastern Swaziland and south-eastern South Africa.



References
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Files:
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