Northern brown-throated weaver
Appearance
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Northern brown-throated weaver | |
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Female Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Ploceidae |
Genus: | Ploceus |
Species: | P. castanops
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Binomial name | |
Ploceus castanops Shelley, 1888
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The northern brown-throated weaver (Ploceus castanops) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in Uganda, Rwanda and adjacent northern Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Kenya and northwestern Tanzania.
Hybridisation
[edit]P. victoriae (Ash, 1986) is now thought to be a hybrid between P. castanops and P. melanocephalus.
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ploceus castanops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22718850A94599395. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718850A94599395.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
External links
[edit]- Northern brown-throated weaver - Species text in Weaver Watch.