Weavers (Ploceidae)
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver (Plocepasser superciliosus) - HBW 15, p. 135
French: Mahali à calotte marron
German: Kastanienscheitelweber
Spanish: Tejedor-gorrión Coronicastaño
Other common names: Sparrow-Weaver
Taxonomy: Ploceus superciliosus Cretzschmar, 1827, Kordofan, Sudan.
Genus sometimes placed in sparrow family (Passeridae). Proposed race brunnescens (described from Bozoum, in NW Central African Republic) appears to be inseparable from individuals in rest of species' range. Monotypic.
Distribution: Gambia and S Senegal, SW Mali and N Guinea; and from S Burkina Faso and N parts of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benin E in narrow band to WC Sudan and N Central African Republic, thence E to W Eritrea and W & N Ethiopia and, in S, to NE DRCongo, N Uganda and W Kenya.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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perching and flying away Locality Butiaba Escarpment, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 29 September 2010 2 years ago 9 sec 3.8 -
Bird sat in bush, with second individual briefly Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana (Monotypic species)
mark sutton 6 December 2010 2 years ago 50 sec 3.6
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adults perched
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana (Monotypic species)
Nik Borrow 12 February 2013 9 weeks ago 4 -
Bird in bush
Locality Tujering, Western Division, The Gambia
Klaus Lachenmaier 29 March 2013 1 week ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.5 -
On branch, feeding near ground.
Locality Adi Quala, Southern Region, Eritrea
Jason Anderson 1 May 2009 2 years ago 3.3 -
A bird perched in a tree
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana (Monotypic species)
Arthur Grosset 3 June 2011 1 year ago 2.2 -
Singing bird in bush at dawn
Locality Kiang West National Park, Lower River Division , The Gambia
Photo-ay 26 February 2009 3 years ago 2
- No sound recordings available yet
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