Cabanis's Bunting (Emberiza cabanisi)

Other Names (World)
Cabanis's Bunting, Cabanis's Yellow Bunting, Angola Bunting (cognominata), Three-streaked Bunting (orientalis)

Family
Emberizidae (Old World Buntings)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
Reichenow, 1875

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Mali.

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 (5)...)

Cabanis's Bunting (Emberiza cabanisi) [XC699511]
by Dries Van de Loock from Mwekera College Forest, Copperbelt Province, Zambia (song)

Cabanis's Bunting (Emberiza cabanisi) [XC510151]
by Murray Christian from Amani nature reserve, Tanga, Tanzania (song)

Subspecies
Subspecies orientalis, geographically separated from others, sometimes considered to represent a separate species. On other hand, cognominata sometimes synonymized with it.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

cabanisi Reichenow, 1875 - Western Africa locally from Guinea and Sierra Leone east to Cameroon, Gabon, PRCongo, northern DRCongo, southern Sudan and north-western Uganda.
cognominata (Grote, 1931) - Central Africa from Gabon, PRCongo and Angola east to western Zimbabwe.
orientalis (Shelley, 1882) - Tanzania south to eastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Cabaniss Bunting (Emberiza cabanisi) - 10 files

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