Habitat
Dense secondary vegetation bordering small creeks and rivers in primary and secondary forest, swamp forest, gallery forest, sub-montane forest. More rarely, lowland forest.
Black-headed Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus cerviniventris) [XC411865]
by Paul Lenrum\u00e9 from Parc National de la For\u00eat de Ta\u00ef, Ivory Coast (song)
Black-headed Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus cerviniventris) [XC756967]
by Paul Lenrum\u00e9 from Ziama Forest, Guinea (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Forms a superspecies with Black-faced Rufous-warbler (Bathmocercus rufus) and sometimes treated as conspecific.