Speckle-fronted Weaver

Sporopipes frontalis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsShrublandDomed nestSmall · 17 g

When to see the Speckle-fronted Weaver

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Speckle-fronted Weaver

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mauritania, Sudan.

About the Speckle-fronted Weaver

The speckle-fronted weaver 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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