White-billed Buffalo Weaver
Bubalornis albirostris(Vieillot, LJP, 1817)
English (US) White-billed Buffalo Weaver
The White-billed Buffalo Weaver (Bubalornis albirostris) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Ploceidae (Weavers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: southern Mauritania to Guinea, eastward to southern Sudan, western Ethiopia, and northern Eritrea, and southward to southeastern South Sudan, northeastern Uganda, and northwestern KenyaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Bubalornis albirostris
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- White-billed Buffalo Weaver
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1817)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Coccothraustes albirostris
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1817)
- Type locality
- Africa. Restricted to Senegal by Hartert, 1907, Novit. ZooL, 14, p. 485.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 13 p.535
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Black-chinned Weaver
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