Bar-winged Prinia (Prinia familiaris)

Other Names (World)
Bar-winged Prinia, Bar-winged Wren-warbler

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
Horsfield, 1821

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical mangrove forest.

Range (Guide)

Indonesia (B).

Eastern Sumatra, Java and Bali.

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 NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (17)...)

Bar-winged Prinia (Prinia familiaris) [XC477292]
by from EFFORTS project, Sumatra, Oil palm plots, Jambi, Indonesia (song)

Bar-winged Prinia (Prinia familiaris) [XC479598]
by Prayitno Goenarto from Sumatra, Kabupaten Pelalawan, Riau, Indonesia (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Birds of Sumatra and western Java have commonly been separated as subspecies prinia, but the observed differences appear to refer to individual variation, and are not sustained when analysed over a lengthy series of samples.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

prinia (Temminck, 1836) - Lowlands of Sumatra, western Java and Karimunjawa Islands.
familiaris Horsfield, 1821 - Sumatra, Java.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bar-winged Prinia (Prinia familiaris) - 10 files

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