Yellow-throated Longclaw (Macronyx croceus)

Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1816)

Habitat
Dry savanna, subarctic shrubland. From sea-level - 2,350 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho (B), Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Somalia.

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 (60)...)

Yellow-throated Longclaw (Macronyx croceus) [XC81888]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Namizimu Forest Reserve, Mangochi District, Malawi (song?)

Yellow-throated Longclaw (Macronyx croceus) [XC70876]
by Bram Piot from R\u00e9serve de la Rusizi, Burundi (call)

Subspecies
Genus probably closely related to Tmetothylacus and Hemimacronyx. May form a superspecies with Fulleborn's Longclaw (Macronyx fuelleborni). Plumage individually variable, and recognition of subspecies often considered unwarranted.

Proposed subspecies hygricus (Upper Guinea) included in nominate. Subspecies vulturnus sometimes misspelt vulturinus.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

croceus (Vieillot, 1816) - Senegambia east to Cameroon, western and southern fringes of Chad, northern and southern Central African Republic, Gabon, north-western and west-central Angola, PRCongo, west, northern and north-eastern DRCongo, southern Sudan, and Uganda and mesic areas of western and central Kenya south to Burundi and north-western and northern Tanzania (south to the Serengeti).
tertius Clancey, 1958 - Coastal lowlands of Kenya and Tanzania.
vulturnus Friedmann, 1930 - Central and southern Tanzania, eastern Zambia (east of Luangwa Valley), Malawi, north-eastern and central Zimbabwe and Mozambique south to south-eastern South Africa.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-throated Longclaw (Macronyx croceus) - 10 files

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