Red-headed Malimbe (Malimbus rubricollis)

Other Names (World)
Red-headed Malimbe, Red-collared Malimbe, Red-headed Quelea(!)

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1838)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Mali.

Western Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia east to southern Togo, southern Benin, southern Nigeria, Bioko I (Fernando Póo), southern Cameroon, south-western Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, north, eastern and south-western PRCongo, north-western and western Angola (Cabinda; Uí south to Cuanza Sul), also much of DRCongo (except extreme northern and southern and south-east), extreme south-western Sudan, western and southern Uganda, extreme western Kenya (Kakamega and Nyandoro) and extreme north-western Tanzania (Bukoba).

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 (7)...)

Red-headed Malimbe (Malimbus rubricollis) [XC745697]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from New Debiso, Bia, Western Region, Ghana (uncertain)

Red-headed Malimbe (Malimbus rubricollis) [XC336073]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Palmci estate, Boubo, Sud-Bandama, Ivory Coast (call)

Subspecies
Several subspecies proposed, including nigeriae (from Iju, near Lagos, in Nigeria), rufovelatus (from Bioko I), centralis (described from Ndussuma, in Ituri district of north-eastern DRCongo) and praedi (from N'Dalatando, in western Angola). However, these are separated by only slight differences in size, and variation in other characters considered trivial.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

bartletti Sharpe, 1890 - Western Guinea to Togo.
nigeriae Bannerman, 1921 - Benin to southern Nigeria (east to Niger delta).
rubricollis (Swainson, 1838) - Western, central.
rufovelatus (Fraser, 1843) - Bioko (Gulf of Guinea).
praedi Bannerman, 1921 - Angola (Uige, Cuanza Norte and Cuanza Sul).
centralis Reichenow, 1893 - Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and western Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

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