Thick-billed Weaver

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Ploceidae

Genus

Amblyospiza

eBird Code

growea1

Subspecies (10)

• Amblyospiza albifrons albifrons

  eastern South Africa

• Amblyospiza albifrons capitalba

  Senegal to southwestern Nigeria

• Amblyospiza albifrons kasaica

  southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kasai)

• Amblyospiza albifrons maxima

  southeastern Angola, Caprivi Strip of Namibia, northern Botswana, and far northwestern Zimbabwe

• Amblyospiza albifrons melanota

  South Sudan, western and central Ethiopia, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania

• Amblyospiza albifrons montana

  interior southern Kenya and Tanzania to Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

• Amblyospiza albifrons saturata

  southeastern Nigeria, Cameroon, northern Gabon, northern Congo, southwestern Central African Republic, and northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Amblyospiza albifrons tandae

  northern Angola and far western Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Amblyospiza albifrons unicolor

  southern Somalia, coastal eastern Kenya, eastern Tanzania, and far southern Malawi

• Amblyospiza albifrons woltersi

  Mozambique (south of Zambezi) and adjacent eastern Zimbabwe to KwaZulu-Natal