Blackcap Babbler (Turdoides reinwardtii) [XC447207]
by Bram Piot from \u00cele du Lamantin, Parc du W, Niger (song)
Blackcap Babbler (Turdoides reinwardtii) [XC425237]
by Peter Boesman from Brufut, Kombo North, West Coast Region, Gambia (song)
Subspecies
Has been thought possibly to form a superspecies, and even perhaps to be conspecific, with Black-faced Babbler (Turdoides melanops) and Dusky Babbler (Turdoides tenebrosa).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
reinwardtii (Swainson, 1831) - Senegal east to Mali and Sierra Leone.
stictilaema (Alexander, 1901) - Northern Ivory Coast, southern Burkina Faso and Ghana east to Cameroon, southern Chad, west-central and southern Central African Republic and extreme northern DRCongo.