Cinnamon Bracken Warbler (Bradypterus cinnamomeus) [XC72986]
by David Marques from Mau Forest, Kenya (call)
Cinnamon Bracken Warbler (Bradypterus cinnamomeus) [XC516747]
by Louis A. Hansen from Rock wall, Chita Forest, southern Udzungwa Scarp (btw Funo and Suni camps), Tanzania (call)
Subspecies
Bradypterus cinnamomeus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler (Bradypterus cinnamomeus) and Bangwa Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis) following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).
Forms a superspecies with Barratt's Warbler (Bradypterus barratti) and, probably, Bangwa Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis). Formerly treated as conspecific with Bangwa Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis). These species and Evergreen-forest Warbler (Bradypterus lopezi) make up a group of similar Afrotropical sylviids of forest and forest edge. Subspecies ufipae of Evergreen-forest Warbler (Bradypterus lopezi) was in the past sometimes treated within present species.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
cinnamomeus (Rüppell, 1840) - Highlands of Ethiopia, eastern DRCongo (except Ruwenzori Mts), south-western and eastern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, west, central and south-eastern Kenya, and northern Tanzania (Kilimanjaro, Crater Highlands).