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 NT    Olive-headed Weaver* Id (Atlas):
    Ploceus olivaceiceps

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Olive-headed Weaver, Olive-headed Golden Weaver

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Reichenow, 1899)

Range (Guide)
Malawi (B) (NB), Mozambique (B), Tanzania [United Republic of] (B), Zambia (B).

Northern, western and southern Tanzania, eastern Zambia, central and southern Malawi and north-western and southern Mozambique.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status NT
Habitat destruction and degradation through slash-and-burn agriculture, rapidly transforming woodland into farmland, is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
Olive-headed Weaver (Ploceus olivaceiceps) [XC365847]
     by id from Chongoni Hill, nr Dedza, Central Region, Malawi (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

May form a superspecies with Usambara Weaver (Ploceus nicolli), and formerly treated as conspecific. Isolated population in southern Mozambique sometimes separated as subspecies vicarius, defined as shorter-winged and paler in coloration than birds farther north, but original description based on an inadequate comparative sample.


References
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Files:
JPG files for Olive-headed Weaver (Ploceus olivaceiceps) - 10 files


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