Barratt's Warbler (Bradypterus barratti) [XC518902]
by Frank Lambert from Sani Pass road lower section, Maloti-Drakensberg Park (near Mkhomazi Wilderness area), East Griqualand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (song)
Barratt's Warbler (Bradypterus barratti) [XC522783]
by Rick Nuttall from Mutare, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe (song)
Subspecies
Sometimes treated as conspecific with Evergreen-forest Warbler (Bradypterus lopezi), but differs in habitat preference, song and tail morphology (rather broad rectrices). Regarded as forming a superspecies with Cinnamon Bracken-warbler (Bradypterus cinnamomeus), probably also including Bangwa Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis). All four species make up a group of similar Afrotropical sylviids of forest and forest edge.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
priesti Benson, 1946 - Eastern Zimbabwe and adjacent Mozambique.
barratti Sharpe, 1876 - North-eastern South Africa (eastern and northern Northern Province), western Swaziland, and Lebombo Mts (south-western Mozambique-eastern Swaziland-northern KwaZulu-Natal borders).
godfreyi (Roberts, 1922) - Eastern South Africa (lowland KwaZulu-Natal south to coastal eastern Cape).
cathkinensis Vincent, 1948 - Highlands of eastern South Africa (from Mpumalanga south through interior KwaZulu-Natal to Griqualand West, in eastern Cape) and Lesotho.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet