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 LC    Banded Prinia* Id (Atlas):
    Prinia bairdii

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Banded Prinia, Black-faced Prinia (obscura, melanops)

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1855)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From 1,500 - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (22)...)

 
Banded Prinia (Prinia bairdii) [XC827252]
     by Brendan Sloan from Semuliki National Park, Uganda (song)

 
Banded Prinia (Prinia bairdii) [XC827641]
     by Brendan Sloan from Semuliki National Park, Uganda (song)

Subspecies
Banded Prinia (Prinia bairdii) and Black-faced Prinia (Prinia melanops) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Prinia bairdii following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Aberrant prinia, sometimes placed in its own genus, Herpystera. Subspecies melanops and obscura sometimes treated as a separate species on basis of plumage differences and more montane habitat, but a narrow zone of hybridization with nominate exists in eastern DRCongo.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • bairdii (Cassin, 1855)   -  South-eastern Nigeria south to northern Angola (Cabinda), east to southern Central African Republic, northern DRCongo and western Uganda.
  • heinrichi Meise, 1958   -  North-western Angola (Cuanza Norte).
  • obscura (Neumann, 1908)   -  Highlands of eastern DRCongo, western Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Black-faced Prinia (Prinia melanops).
  • melanops (Reichenow and Neumann, 1895)   -  Esst-central. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Black-faced Prinia (Prinia melanops).



References
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Files:
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