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 LC    Speckle-fronted Weaver* Id (Atlas):
    Sporopipes frontalis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Speckle-fronted Weaver, Scaly-fronted Weaver

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
11 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Daudin, 1802)

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Vagrant to Somalia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A high-pitched 'sip sip' and a trilling flight call. Song is a high-pitched series of ascending trills.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)...)

 
Speckle-fronted Weaver (Sporopipes frontalis) [XC200979]
     by Rory Nefdt from Mara Siria Camp, Mara Triangle, Kenya (call)

 
Speckle-fronted Weaver (Sporopipes) [XC390548]
     by Bram Piot from Boromo, Boucle du Mouhoun Region, Burkina Faso (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Scaly-fronted Weaver (Sporopipes squamifrons).

Proposed subspecies pallidior (described from Zinder, in southern Niger) synonymized with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • frontalis (Daudin, 1802)   -  South-western and south-eastern Mauritania, northern and western Senegal, Gambia, Mali (mainly drainage area of R Niger), north-western Burkina Faso, north-western Ghana (Mole region), northern Benin, west-central and southern Niger (including Aïr Massif) and northern Nigeria eastern in Sahel region to north-western Ethiopia and south-western Eritrea.
  • emini Neumann, 1900   -  Southern Sudan, north-western and north-eastern Uganda and west-central Kenya south to central Tanzania.



References
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Files:
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