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title: "Speckle-fronted Weaver"
description: "Sporopipes frontalis — Aves. The speckle-fronted weaver (Sporopipes frontalis) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/speckle-fronted-weaver
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Speckle-fronted Weaver

> Sporopipes frontalis — Aves. The speckle-fronted weaver (Sporopipes frontalis) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae.

- Scientific name: *Sporopipes frontalis*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 698
- Wikidata: [Q264067](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264067)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13920](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13920)

## Names

- en: Speckle-fronted Weaver
- de: Schuppenköpfchen
- es: Tejedorcito Frontal
- fr: Sporopipe quadrillé
- nl: Schubkopwever
- pl: Łuskogłowik czarnobrody

## Countries with the most observations

TZ (329), KE (172), NG (58), UG (47), TD (16), SN (12), ET (6), BF (5), CF (3)

## Summary

The speckle-fronted weaver (Sporopipes frontalis) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae.
It is found in Africa from Mauritania and Gambia in the west to Ethiopia and Tanzania in the east.
Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckle-fronted_weaver

## Photo

![Speckle-fronted Weaver](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/speckle-fronted-weaver/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew Deacon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/346342559

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/speckle-fronted-weaver?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).