Speke's Weaver
Ploceus spekei(Heuglin, MT, 1861)
English (US) Speke's Weaver
The Speke's Weaver (Ploceus spekei) 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 Ethiopia to Somalia, Kenya, and northern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ploceus spekei
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Speke's Weaver
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1861)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Hyphantornis spekei
- Described by
- (Heuglin, MT, 1861)
- Type locality
- Somaliland = H . baglafecht Blyth nec Vieillot 1855, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24, p. 301). Type locality restricted to 'northern Italian Somaliland' by Grant and Mackworth-Praed (1944, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., 64, p. 67).
- Original description
- Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie von Dr. A. Petermann p.24
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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