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 LC    White-fronted Black-chat* Id (Atlas):
    Oenanthe albifrons

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Pentholaea albifrons

Other Names (World)
White-fronted Black-Chat, White-fronted Chat, White-forehead Chat, White-fronted Black Chat

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Rüppell, 1837)

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Mauritania.

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 (2)...)

 
White-fronted Black Chat (Oenanthe albifrons) [XC405336]
     by Joost van Bruggen from Dindefelo-Segou, K\u00e9dougou, Senegal (song)

 
White-fronted Black Chat (Oenanthe albifrons) [XC176694]
     by Mike Nelson from Mole NP, Kintampo South, Brong Ahafo, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Often treated in genus Myrmecocichla. On basis of female plumage, nominate subspecies and pachyrhyncha form one group, and the three other subspecies another.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • frontalis (Swainson, 1837)   -  Senegal and Gambia east to northern Cameroon.
  • limbata (Reichenow, 1921)   -  Eastern Cameroon east to Central African Republic.
  • clericalis (Cabanis, 1882)   -  Southern Sudan, northern DRCongo and Uganda.
  • albifrons (Rüppell, 1837)   -  Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
  • pachyrhyncha (Neumann, 1906)   -  South-western Ethiopia.



References
See References.


Files:
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