Black Spinetail (Telacanthura melanopygia)

Other Names (World)
Black Spinetail, Chapin's Spinetail, Ituri Spinetail, Ituri Mottle-throated Spinetail, Ituri Spinetailed Swift, Ituri Mottle-throated Spinetailed Swift

Family
Apodidae (Swifts)

Size
15 - 17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Chapin, 1915)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.

Vagrant to Angola.

Sierra Leone to southern Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon; also south-western Central African Republic, north-eastern Zaire and north-eastern Angola.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Black Spinetail (Telacanthura melanopygia) [XC351760]
by id from Ankasa NR, Ghana (flight call)

Subspecies
Genus formerly merged into Chaetura, or occasionally Rhaphidura.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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