Vieillot's black weaver

Vieillot's black weaver
P. n. nigerrimus, Uganda
P. n. castaneofuscus, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Ploceidae
Genus:Ploceus
Species: P. nigerrimus
Binomial name
Ploceus nigerrimus
Vieillot, 1819

The Vieillot's black weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is named after the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot.[2]

Range and habitat

It is found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Male constructing his nest

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Ploceus nigerrimus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 352.


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