| Rufous-tailed Weaver | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Passeridae |
| Genus: | Histurgops Reichenow, 1887 |
| Species: | H. ruficaudus |
| Binomial name | |
| Histurgops ruficaudus Reichenow, 1887 |
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The Rufous-tailed Weaver (Histurgops ruficaudus) is an East African songbird. Despite its name, it is placed the Old World sparrow family (Passeridae).
It is a quite unusual sparrow species, and was included in the weaverbird family (Ploceidae) by many authors even after the other Old World sparrows were separated from the weaverbirds proper, hence its common name. Due to its distant position among the Old World sparrows, it is placed in the monotypic genus Histurgops.
It is an endemic breeder in Tanzania, but vagrants occur in Kenya too.
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