White-tailed Alethe (Alethe diademata)

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1850)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Cote dIvoire, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Senegal east to Togo.

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 (2012).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (35)...)

White-tailed Alethe (Alethe diademata) [XC641589]
by Marc Languy from Parc National de la For\u00eat du Banco, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (song)

White-tailed Alethe (Alethe diademata) [XC722634]
by Brendan Sloan from Atewa Forest, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
White-tailed Alethe (Alethe diademata) and Fire-crested Alethe (Alethe castanea) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Alethe diademata following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Forms a superspecies with Fire-crested Alethe (Alethe castanea) and has been treated as conspecific, and very similar in both song and habits, but plumage differences (including of juveniles) suggest that the two are better treated as separate species.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

diademata (Bonaparte, 1850) - Western Africa from Senegambia to Togo.
castanea (Cassin, 1856) - Nigeria east to western DRCongo, south to northern Angola. Also Bioko I (Fernando P�o).
woosnami Ogilvie-Grant, 1906 - Northern and central DRCongo east to south-western Sudan and Uganda.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-tailed Alethe (Alethe diademata) - 10 files

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