Yellow-throated Bush-sparrow (Gymnoris superciliaris)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-throated Bush-sparrow, Yellow-throated Petronia, Yellow-throated Sparrow, Southern Yellow-throated Sparrow, South African Rock-sparrow, South African Petronia, Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow

Family
Passeridae (Old World Sparrows)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Blyth, 1845)

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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 (47)...)

Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow (Gymnoris superciliaris) [XC552098]
by Tim Cockcroft from Kasanka National Park, Zambia (song?)

Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow (Gymnoris superciliaris) [XC339197]
by Lynette Rudman from Mutinondo Wilderness area, Northern Province, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
Geographical variation rather poorly marked and sometimes treated as monotypic.

Proposed subspecies oraria (described from Magogoni, inland from Dar es Salaam, in eastern Tanzania) is synonymous with bororensis.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

rufitergum (Clancey, 1964) - Extreme south-eastern Gabon, southern PRCongo and south-western and southern DRCongo east to south-western Tanzania, south to Angola, north-eastern Namibia and north-western Botswana.
flavigula (Sundevall, 1850) - South-eastern Zambia, Zimbabwe, eastern Botswana and northern South Africa.
bororensis (Roberts, 1912) - Eastern Tanzania south to Mozambique, north-eastern South Africa (eastern Limpopo Province and north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal) and eastern Swaziland.
superciliaris (Blyth, 1845) - Eastern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal south to eastern Cape).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-throated Bush-sparrow (Gymnoris superciliaris) - 10 files

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