Black-capped Illadopsis (Illadopsis cleaveri)

Other Names (World)
Black-capped Illadopsis, Blackcap Illadopsis, Blackcap Thrush-babbler, Blackcap Akalat

Family
Pellorneidae (Ground Babblers)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shelley, 1874)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.

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 (12)...)

Blackcap Illadopsis (Illadopsis cleaveri) [XC719208]
by Peter Boesman from Ankasa NR, Ghana (song)

Blackcap Illadopsis (Illadopsis cleaveri) [XC880996]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone (song)

Subspecies
Formerly placed in genus Trichastoma. May form a superspecies with Scaly-breasted Illadopsis (Illadopsis albipectus) and occasionally treated as conspecific, but plumages distinctive and ranges parapatric. Individuals of this species in Ivory Coast and south-eastern Guinea not yet assigned to subspecies.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

johnsoni (B�ttikofer, 1889) - Eastern Sierra Leone and western Liberia.
cleaveri (Shelley, 1874) - Ghana.
marchanti Serle, 1956 - South-eastern Benin and southern Nigeria.
batesi (Sharpe, 1901) - South-eastern Nigeria (Obudu Plateau) and south-western and southern Cameroon east to south-western Central African Republic, south to extreme western DRCongo.
poensis Bannerman, 1934 - Bioko I (Fernando P�o).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-capped Illadopsis (Illadopsis cleaveri) - 9 files

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