Range extension of the Lufira Masked Weaver Ploceus ruweti, endemic to Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo

Craig, Adrian J F K; Hasson, Michel; Jordaens, Kurt; Breman, Floris C; Louette, Michel

Title: Range extension of the Lufira Masked Weaver Ploceus ruweti, endemic to Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo
Creator: Craig, Adrian J F K
Creator: Hasson, Michel
Creator: Jordaens, Kurt
Creator: Breman, Floris C
Creator: Louette, Michel
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2011
Date: 2011
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/449489
Identifier: vital:74825
Identifier: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2989/00306525.2010.523018
Description: For many years the status of Ploceus ruweti Louette and Benson 1982, described from the unique male type specimen obtained in 1960 at Lake Lufira (an artificial impoundment on the Lufira River), remained obscure. However, in 2009 MH revisited the type locality, photographed the birds breeding there (including females and young birds), and rec-orded their song; nests and eggs were described for the first time, and a second male specimen was obtained from local fishermen (Louette and Hasson 2009; collection number RMCA A9-18-A-1). This species had been treated in the authoritative series The Birds of Africa as the Lake Lufira Weaver (Oschadleus 2004), and appears under this name in current checklists and fieldguides (eg Sinclair and Ryan 2003). Since the lake is now known as Lake Tshangalele and, based on our data from a recent field trip to the region, the bird is not restricted to the lake, an appropriate common name for P. ruweti is ‘Lufira Masked Weaver’as recommended by Gill and Wright (2006), and as used in a forthcoming volume of the other authoritative series Handbook of the Birds of the World (Craig 2010).
Format: 3 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Ostrich
Relation: Craig, A.J., Hasson, M., Jordaens, K., Breman, F.C. and Louette, M., 2011. Range extension of the Lufira Masked Weaver Ploceus ruweti, endemic to Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Ostrich, 82(1), pp.77-78
Relation: Ostrich volume 82 number 1 77 78 2011 1727-947X
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