Speckle-fronted weaver

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Speckle-fronted weaver
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Sporopipes
Species:
S. frontalis
Binomial name
Sporopipes frontalis
(Daudin, 1800)

The speckle-fronted weaver (Sporopipes frontalis) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in Africa from Mauritania and Gambia in the west to Ethiopia and Tanzania in the east. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Sporopipes frontalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T22718680A131884227. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22718680A131884227.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.