Tanzanian Masked Weaver

Tanzanian Masked Weaver
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Ploceus
Species: P. reichardi
Binomial name
Ploceus reichardi
Reichenow, 1886

The Tanzanian Masked Weaver or Tanganyika Masked Weaver (Ploceus reichardi) is a species of bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae. It is found in and around swamps in south-west Tanzania and north-east Zambia. The Lufira Masked Weaver (P. ruweti) of the Democratic Republic of Congo is sometimes treated as a subspecies of this bird.

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