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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
22/05/2024 03:58:19 AM
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Black Spinetail*
Id (Atlas):
Telacanthura melanopygia
Description (5 )
Black Spinetail
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Other Names (World)
Black Spinetail, Chapin's Spinetail, Ituri Spinetail, Ituri Mottle-throated Spinetail, Ituri Spinetailed Swift, Ituri Mottle-throated Spinetailed Swift
Family
Apodidae (Swifts)
Size
15 - 17 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Chapin, 1915)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.
Vagrant to Angola.
Sierra Leone to southern Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon; also south-western Central
African Republic, north-eastern Zaire and north-eastern Angola.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files
Listen to XC351760
Black Spinetail (Telacanthura melanopygia ) [XC351760 ]
by id from Ankasa NR, Ghana (flight call)
Subspecies
Genus formerly merged into Chaetura , or occasionally Rhaphidura .
No subspecies.
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Black Spinetail see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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