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Alternative name: Salvadori's Weaver

Photo by volker sthamer
Genale River, Ethiopia, March, 2011

Photo by Jon Gallagher
, Ethiopia, January 2012

Ploceus dichrocephalus

Ploceus dicrocephalus

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

East Africa: found in riparian vegetation of south-eastern Ethiopia, southern Somalia and north-eastern Kenya.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Riparian woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

Breeds in colonies in trees over water.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

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