Chestnut-and-black Weaver - BirdForum Opus

This article is incomplete. This article is missing one or more sections. You can help the BirdForum Opus by expanding it.

Photo © by Mark Harper
Hans Cottage, Ghana, 4 April 2010

Ploceus castaneofuscus

Identification

Female
Photo © by Whiteheadedvulture
Manso Nkwanta, Ashanti, Ghana, 3 December 2023

Male:

• Mostly black
• Back, rump and belly are chestnut-brown.

Distribution

Africa: found in Guinea and Sierra Leone to eastern Nigeria

Taxonomy

This species was formerly combined with Vieillot's Black Weaver into Vieillot's Weaver.

Subspecies

This is a monotypic species[1].

References

1. Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Chestnut-and-black Weaver. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Chestnut-and-black_Weaver

External Links

Search for photos of Chestnut-and-black Weaver in the gallery

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.1