Chestnut-throated Apalis (Apalis porphyrolaema)

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
11 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Reichenow & Neumann, 1895

Habitat
Montane forest, gallery forest, their edges and secondary growth. From 1,600 - 3,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Burundi (B), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B), Kenya (B), Rwanda (B), Tanzania [United Republic of] (B), Uganda (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
In pairs or small family parties, occasionally of 6 - 8.

Food
Insects and spiders.

Voice
An often repeated 'dzzee dzzee', sometimes run together in a trill. A higher pitched 'tsee tseee', noted in Tanzania.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (40)...)

Chestnut-throated Apalis (Apalis porphyrolaema) [XC704473]
by Peter Boesman from Bufumbira (near Bwanjebe), Wilaya ya Kisoro, Mkoa wa Magharibi, Uganda (song)

Chestnut-throated Apalis (Apalis porphyrolaema) [XC444574]
by James Bradley from Saimo Hills, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
Chestnut-throated Apalis (Apalis porphyrolaema) and Kabobo Apalis (Apalis kaboboensis) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are now lumped into Apalis porphyrolaema following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Forms a superspecies with Kabobo Apalis (Apalis kaboboensis) and Chapin's Apalis (Apalis chapini) and all sometimes treated as conspecific.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

porphyrolaema Reichenow & Neumann, 1895 - Eastern DRCongo, western Rwanda, north-western Burundi, eastern Uganda, Kenya and northern Tanzania.
affinis Ogilvie-Grant, 1906 - South-western Uganda.
kaboboensis Prigogine, 1955 - DR Congo. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Kabobo Apalis (Apalis kaboboensis).

References
See References.

Files:

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