Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Ploceidae > Ploceus > Ploceus heugliniPloceus heuglini (Heuglin's Masked Weaver)The Heuglin's masked weaver (Ploceus heuglini) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.86686 EDGE Score: 1.35244 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 29 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 2.4 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 35 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 24 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 45.8 % |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | | Diet - Fruit [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 70 % | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 2 | | Incubation [4] | 12 days | | Mating Display [2] | Ground display |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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East Sudanian savanna |
Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Guinean forest-savanna mosaic |
Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Mandara Plateau mosaic |
Cameroon, Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Sahelian Acacia savanna |
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic |
Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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West Sudanian savanna |
Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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'W' National Park |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Ajai Wildlife Reserve |
Uganda |
A1, A3 |
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Bandingilo |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Bénoué National Park |
Cameroon |
A3 |
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Bui National Park |
Ghana |
A3 |
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Comoe National Park |
C |
A3 |
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Digya National Park |
Ghana |
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Falgore and Lame Burra Game Reserves |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Ferlo North |
Senegal |
A3 |
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Gambaga Scarp (East) Forest Reserve |
Ghana |
A3 |
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Garamba National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A3 |
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Gashaka-Gumti National Park |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gashiga: Demsa |
Cameroon |
A3 |
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Hadejia-Nguru wetlands |
Nigeria |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Kagoro: Nindam Forest Reserves |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Kainji Lake National Park |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Kamuku National Park |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Kéran National Park |
Togo |
A3 |
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Kiang West National Park |
Gambia |
A3 |
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Lake Chad |
Chad |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Lamto Ecological Research Station |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Logone flood-plain |
Cameroon |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Manovo: Gounda: St Floris National Park complex |
Central African Republic |
A3 |
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Mole National Park |
Ghana |
A3 |
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Mount Elgon |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Kei Forest Reserve |
Uganda |
A3 |
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Nimule |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Oti Valley Faunal Reserve |
Togo |
A3 |
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Ouémé river basin |
Benin |
A3 |
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Pandam Wildlife Park |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Southern National Park |
Sudan |
A3 |
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W du Bénin National Park |
Benin |
A3 |
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Yankari National Park |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Zakouma National Park |
Chad |
A1, A3, A4i |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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