Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola)

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shelley, 1899)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest. From 850 - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (30)...)

Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola) [XC364783]
by Peter Boesman from Chowo Forest patch, Nyika NP, Malawi (song)

Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola) [XC760160]
by Michael Hurben from Ngorongoro crater rim, Arusha Region, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
Grey Apalis (Apalis cinerea) and Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Apalis cinerea following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Forms a superspecies with Grey Apalis (Apalis cinerea) and they have often been treated as conspecific, but are sympatric in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Subspecies dowsetti is intermediate between nominate and Grey Apalis (Apalis cinerea) in amount of white in outer tail.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

alticola (Shelley, 1899) - North-central Angola, southern DRCongo, northern Zambia, northern Malawi, Tanzania and south-western Kenya.
dowsetti Prigogine, 1973 - Marungu Mts, in south-eastern DRCongo.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola) - 10 files

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