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 LC    Crested Malimbe* Id (Atlas):
    Malimbus malimbicus

Description (10)
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Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Daudin, 1802)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

 
Crested Malimbe (Malimbus malimbicus) [XC99148]
     by Mike Nelson from Korup National Park, Cameroon (call, song)

 
Crested Malimbe (Malimbus malimbicus) [XC836002]
     by Hans Matheve from Semuliki Forest NP, Uganda (call, song)

Subspecies
Differences between nominate subspecies and larger-billed crassirostris possibly due to clinal variation, and latter perhaps better subsumed in nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • nigrifrons (Hartlaub, 1855)   -  Southern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, southern Ivory Coast, southern Ghana and Togo.
  • malimbicus (Daudin, 1802)   -  Southern Nigeria, southern Cameroon, south-western Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, PRCongo, western DRCongo (around mouth of R Congo) and north-western Angola (Cabinda and Cuanza Norte).
  • crassirostris E. J. O. Hartert, 1919   -  South-eastern Central African Republic, north, western and eastern DRCongo, and western and south-western Uganda.



References
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Files:
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