Sabine's Puffback (Dryoscopus sabini)

Other Names (World)
Sabine's Puffback, Large-billed Puffback

Family
Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes)

Size
18 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gray, 1831)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

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

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 (more (15)...)

Sabine's Puffback (Dryoscopus sabini) [XC400053]
by id from Kakum NP, Ghana (call)

Sabine's Puffback (Dryoscopus sabini) [XC343724]
by Peter Boesman from Parc National du Banco, Ivory Coast (song)

Subspecies
Differs from congeners in bill morphology, and has diagnostic whistle call.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

sabini (Gray, 1831) - Sierra Leone east to southern Nigeria.
melanoleucus (Verreaux, J & Verreaux, E, 1851) - Cameroon south, discontinuously, to northern Angola and patchily in north-east, central and southern DRCongo.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Sabines Puffback (Dryoscopus sabini) - 10 files

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