Black-chested Prinia (Prinia flavicans)

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
14 - 15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1820)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Lesotho.

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 (49)...)

Black-chested Prinia (Prinia flavicans) [XC509102]
by Peter Boesman from Minyanya plain, North-western province, Zambia (song)

Black-chested Prinia (Prinia flavicans) [XC126104]
by Sander Bot from Benfontijn Gamereserve, Lejweleputswa, Free State, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
Occasionally hybridizes with Karoo Prinia (Prinia maculosa) in western South Africa. Geographical variation rather subtle. South-eastern populations of nominate subspecies (Northern Province south to Free State, in northern South Africa), on average darker above in non-breeding plumage, sometimes separated as subspecies ortleppi.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

bihe Boulton & Vincent, 1936 - Southern Angola and western Zambia.
ansorgei Sclater, WL, 1927 - Desert coast of south-western Angola and northern Namibia.
flavicans (Vieillot, 1820) - Namibia, western and central Botswana and western South Africa.
nubilosa Clancey, 1957 - North-eastern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, south-western Zambia, western Zimbabwe and eastern South Africa.
ortleppi (Tristram, 1869) - Central South Africa.

References
See References.

Files:

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