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English Thick-billed Weaver
Scientific (Amblyospiza albifrons woltersi)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Ploceidae
Family (English) Weavers, Widowbirds
Other name(s) Grosbec à front blanc, Grosbeak Weaver
Breeding Regions AF
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Benin,Botswana,Burundi,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Congo,Democratic Republic of Congo,Equatorial Guinea,Ethiopia, Gabon,Ghana,Guinea,Ivory Coast,Kenya,Liberia,Malawi,Mozambique,Namibia,Nigeria, Rwanda,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Sudan,Swaziland,Tanzania,Togo, Uganda,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
capitalba Senegal to sw Nigeria
woltersi e Zimbabwe, s Mozambique and ne, e South Africa
maxima se Angola, ne Namibia, w Zambia, n Botswana and extreme nw Zimbabwe
kasaica se DR Congo
tandae nw Angola and extreme w DR Congo
unicolor s Somalia, e Kenya and e Tanzania
montana e DR Congo to c, sw Kenya s to c Zambia, Malawi and nw Zimbabwe
melanota ne DR Congo to Ethiopia, Uganda and nw Kenya
saturata s Nigeria to nw DR Congo
albifrons se South Africa
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Vigors, 1831)
German Weißstirnweber
French Amblyospize à front blanc
Chinese 厚嘴织雀
Japanese ハシブトハタオリ
Russian Белолобый ткач
Spanish Tejedor picogordo
Portuguese tecelão-de-bico-grosso
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)