Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Emberiza tahapisi)

Other Names (World)
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting, Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting, African Rock Bunting

Family
Emberizidae (Old World Buntings)

Size
16 - 17 cm

First Described (Guide)
Smith, 1836

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland and shrubland, dry savanna, rocky areas. From 200 - 2,900 m.

Range (Guide)

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

Vagrant to Egypt.

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 (121)...)

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Emberiza tahapisi) [XC864012]
by Alain Malengreau from Salalah, Dhofar Governorate, Oman (song)

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Emberiza) [XC292799]
by Manuel Schweizer from Jazan, Saudi Arabia (flight call, song)

Subspecies
Subspecies septemstriata sometimes thought to be a hybrid between nominate and goslingi.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

goslingi Smith, 1836 - Mauritania and Senegal east to Cameroon, north-eastern DRCongo and south-western Sudan. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Grey-throated Bunting (Emberiza goslingi).
septemstriata R�ppell, 1837 - Eastern Sudan and northern and central Ethiopia east to Eritrea and north-western Somalia.
arabica (Lorenz von Liburnau, L & Hellmayr, 1902) - Southern Arabia.
insularis (Ogilvie-Grant and H. O. Forbes, 1899) - Socotra I.
tahapisi Smith, 1836 - Southern Ethiopia south through eastern Africa to south-eastern South Africa. Also locally in Angola, and southern Gabon east to southern DRCongo.
nivenorum (Winterbottom, 1965) - Southern Angola south to central Namibia.

References
See References.

Files:

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