Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver (Plocepasser superciliosus)

Other Names (World)
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver, Sparrow-Weaver

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cretzschmar, 1827)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest and shrubland, dry savanna and forest.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Gambia and southern Senegal, south-western Mali and northern Guinea; and from southern Burkina Faso and northern parts of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benin eastern in narrow band to west-central Sudan and northern Central African Republic, thence east to western Eritrea and western and northern Ethiopia and, in south, to north-eastern DRCongo, northern Uganda and western Kenya.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (27)...)

Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver (Plocepasser superciliosus) [XC45573]
by Guido O. Keijl from Mole National Park, Ghana (song)

Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver (Plocepasser superciliosus) [XC300562]
by James Bradley from Melka Ghebdu, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Genus sometimes placed in sparrow family (Passeridae).

Proposed subspecies brunnescens (described from Bozoum, in north-western Central African Republic) appears to be inseparable from individuals in rest of species' range.

References
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