Village Weaver

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Ploceidae

Genus

Ploceus

eBird Code

vilwea1

Subspecies (8)

• Ploceus cucullatus abyssinicus

  Eritrea, Ethiopia, southeastern Sudan, and eastern South Sudan

• Ploceus cucullatus bohndorffi

  northern Gabon, Central African Republic, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southwestern South Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania

• Ploceus cucullatus collaris

  Gabon to southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Angola

• Ploceus cucullatus cucullatus

  Mauritania eastward to Chad, and southward through western Africa to Bioko, northern Gabon, and northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Ploceus cucullatus frobenii

  southern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Ploceus cucullatus graueri

  eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to Rwanda, Burundi, and adjacent western Tanzania

• Ploceus cucullatus nigriceps

  southern Somalia to Kenya, Tanzania, and northern Mozambique; São Tomé

• Ploceus cucullatus spilonotus

  southeastern Botswana to southern Mozambique, South Africa, and Lesotho