Bubalornis [albirostris or niger] (White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver)

White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver

Bubalornis [albirostris or niger] (= Bubalornis albirostris) (Vieillot, LJP 1817)

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Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Ploceidae
Genus:
   Bubalornis
Scientific:
  Bubalornis albirostris

Original description

Citation:
(Vieillot, LJP 1817)

Reference:
Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. nouv. éd. 13 p.535

Protonym:
Coccothraustes albirostris

Type locality:
Africa. Restricted to Senegal by Hartert, 1907, Novit. ZooL, 14, p. 485.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60159#page/559/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
3E964ECA81422FEF

Avibase ID:
avibase-3E964ECA

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/3E964ECA

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 558943

Geographic range:

Bubalornis albirostris: southern Mauritania to Guinea, eastward to southern Sudan, western Ethiopia, and northern Eritrea, and southward to southeastern South Sudan, northeastern Uganda, and northwestern Kenya
Bubalornis niger [niger or militaris]: Angola and Zambia to South Africa
Bubalornis niger intermedius: southern Ethiopia to Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania

Source: Clements checklist

English:
White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
French:
Alecto à bec blanc ou A. à bec rouge

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis [albirostris or niger])
Clements 3rd edition: Buffalo Weaver ( Bubalornis albirostris) [version 1]
Morony, Bock and Farrand: Buffalo-Weaver ( Bubalornis albirostris) [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Bubalornis albirostris [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Bubalornis albirostris [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Bubalornis albirostris [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

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Related taxa

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Other synonyms

See also the taxonomic synonyms table.

Afrikaans: Buffelwewer
Czech: Tkalcík belozobý, tkalčík světlezobý
Danish: Hvidnæbbet Bøffelvæver
German: Alektoweber
English: Buffalo Weaver, Buffalo-Weaver, White-billed Buffalo Weaver, White-billed Buffalo-Weaver, White-billed or Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Esperanto: Blankbeka bubalornito
Spanish: Tejedor Búfalo de Pico Blanco
Finnish: Puhvelikutoja
French: Alecto à bec blanc, Alecto à bec blanc ou A. à bec rouge
Hungarian: fehércsőrű bivalymadár
Italian: Tessitore dei bufali beccobiancho
Japanese (romaji): ushihataori
Japanese: ウシハタオリ
Scientific: Bubalornis [albirostris or niger], Bubalornis albirostris, Coccothraustes albirostris
Lithuanian: Juodasis buivolinis audėjas
Dutch: Witsnavelbuffelwever, Witsnavel-buffelwever
Norwegian: Hvitnebbøffelvever
Polish: bawolik bialodzioby, bawolik białodzioby
Portuguese: Tecelão-de-bico-branco
Russian: Буйволова птица, Буйволовый ткач, Ткачик красноклювый буйволиный
Slovak: byvoliar bielozobý
Swedish: Vitnäbbad buffelvävare
Swahili: Manofi Domo-jeupe
Ukrainian: Алекто білодзьобий
Chinese: 白嘴牛文鸟
Chinese (Traditional): 牛文鳥