Forest weaver
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Forest weaver ( Ploceus bicolor ), male in South Africa |
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The forest weaver ( Ploceus bicolor ) belongs within the family of weaver birds (Ploceidae) to the genus of the bunting weaver ( Ploceus ).
The Latin additional species comes from the Latin bicolor 'two-colored' .
The bird is found in sub-Saharan Africa in Angola , Bioko , Burundi , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Gabon , Cameroon , Kenya , Malawi , Mozambique , Nigeria , Rwanda , Zambia , Zanzibar , Zimbabwe , Somalia , South Africa , South Sudan , Tanzania and Uganda .
The distribution area includes tree-lined habitats up to a height of 2400 m.
features
The species is 14 to 15 cm tall and weighs between 28 and 47 g. The male has dark purple-brown on the forehead, crown and neck up to the back, the body including tail is dark brown with yellow tips of some wings. The forest weaver is characterized by its dark head with red to red-brown irises and a white beak. The underside is bright yellow. Young birds are paler in color.
Geographic variation
The following subspecies are recognized:
- P. b. tephronotus ( Reichenow , 1892) - Southeast Nigeria ( Obudu Plateau ), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon and Western Congo
- P. b. amaurocephalus ( Cabanis , 1880) - Angola and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo
- P. b. mentalis ( Hartlaub , 1891) - south of South Sudan, northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and western Kenya
- P. b. kigomaensis ( CHB Grant & Mackworth-Praed , 1956) - western Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and the extreme southwest of Tanzania
- P. b. kersteni ( Hartlaub & Finsch , 1870) - South Somalia, coast of Kenya, East Tanzani and Zanzibar
- P. b. stictifrons ( GA Fischer & Reichenow , 1885) - Coast of Tanzania, South Malawi, East Zimbabwe and Mozambique to South Africa ( KwaZulu-Natal )
- P. b. bicolor Vieillot , 1819, nominate form - South Mozambique to South Africa ( Eastern Cape )
voice
The singing of both sexes is composed of several musical tones, including bell-like "wi-wi-wi-chuk wi-chuk".
Way of life
The diet consists mainly of arthropods .
The breeding season is between November and December in Bioko, between December and January in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between August and September in Somalia, between April and August in Kenya, between September and December in Zambia and Mozambique, between October and March in Malawi and South Africa.
Forest weavers are monogamous with pair ties for several years, breed individually.
Hazardous situation
The stock is not considered to be at risk ( least concern ).
literature
- LP Vieillot: Le Tisserin Bicolor In: Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. 1819, vol. 34, p. 127 Biodiversity Library
Web links
- Videos, photos and sound recordings of Ploceus bicolor in the Internet Bird Collection
- Weaver Watch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Waldweber , in Avibase - The World Bird Database
- ^ JA Jobling: A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 0-19-854634-3 .
- ↑ a b c d e Handbook of the Birds of the World
- ^ A b c T. Stevenson, J. Fanshawe: Birds of East Africa. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-691-12665-4 .
- ↑ Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers
- ↑ Redlist