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 LC    Grey-headed Social-Weaver* Id (Atlas):
    Pseudonigrita arnaudi

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey-capped Social-weaver, Gray-capped Social-weaver, Grey-headed Social-Weaver, Gray-headed Social-Weaver, Grey-capped Social Weaver

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1851)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
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Grey-capped Social Weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi) [XC510377]
     by Bram Piot from Engikaret Lark plains woodland edge, Arusha, Tanzania (call)

 
Grey-capped Social Weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi) [XC21539]
     by Martin St-Michel from Magadi road near Olongosai, Rift Valley, Kenya (call)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes placed in sparrow family (Passeridae).

Proposed subspecies australoabyssinicus (described from Yavello, in southern Ethiopia) is treated as synonym of nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • arnaudi (Bonaparte, 1851)   -  Western and southern Sudan, extreme southern Ethiopia, eastern Uganda, and western and central Kenya south to north-western Tanzania.
  • dorsalis (Reichenow, 1887)   -  Northern, central and eastern Tanzania.
  • australoabyssinicus Benson, 1942   -  Southern Ethiopia.



References
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Files:
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