Vitelline Masked-weaver

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Vitelline Masked-weaver

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Ploceus
Species: P. vitellinus
Binomial name
Ploceus vitellinus
(Lichtenstein, 1823)

The Vitelline Masked-weaver (Ploceus vitellinus) 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, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

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