Heuglin's Masked Weaver
Ploceus heugliniReichenow, A, 1886
English (US) Heuglin's Masked Weaver
The Heuglin's Masked Weaver (Ploceus heuglini) 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: Senegambia to southern Chad and northern Central African Republic; southwestern South Sudan (and southeastern Central African Republic?), northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and western KenyaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ploceus heuglini
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Heuglin's Masked Weaver
- Described by
- Reichenow, A, 1886
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Reichenow, A, 1886
- Type locality
- Bahr el Ghazal.
- Original description
- Zoologische JahrbĂĽcher 1 p.147
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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