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Species
Least ConcernResident
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Amblyospiza
- Mass
- 3.31
- Image
- Amblyospiza albifrons -Pretoria, South Africa -male-8.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Amblyospiza albifrons
- Commons category
- Amblyospiza albifrons
- taxon common name
- krupnokljuna pletilja
- egg incubation period
- 15
- short name
- A. albifrons
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
The thick-billed weaver (Amblyospiza albifrons), or grosbeak weaver, is a distinctive and bold species of weaver bird that is native to the Afrotropics. It belongs to the monotypic genus Amblyospiza and subfamily Amblyospizinae.
They have particularly strong mandibles, which are employed to extricate the seeds in nutlets and drupes, and their songs are comparatively unmusical and harsh. Their colonial nests are readily distinguishable from those of other weavers, due to their form and placement, and the fine strands used in their construction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thick-billed Weaver” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.