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 LC    Black-chested Prinia* Id (Atlas):
    Prinia flavicans

Description (10)
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Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
14 - 15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1820)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (49)...)

 
Black-chested Prinia (Prinia flavicans) [XC280602]
     by Peter Boesman from Zaagkuildrift road to Kgomo-Kgomo, Gauteng, South Africa (song)

 
Black-chested Prinia (Prinia) [XC634751]
     by Tony Archer from City of Matlosana (near Hartbeesfontein), Southern DC, North West, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Occasionally hybridizes with Karoo Prinia (Prinia maculosa) in western South Africa. Geographical variation rather subtle. South-eastern populations of nominate subspecies (Northern Province south to Free State, in northern South Africa), on average darker above in non-breeding plumage, sometimes separated as subspecies ortleppi.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • bihe Boulton & Vincent, 1936   -  Southern Angola and western Zambia.
  • ansorgei Sclater, WL, 1927   -  Desert coast of south-western Angola and northern Namibia.
  • flavicans (Vieillot, 1820)   -  Namibia, western and central Botswana and western South Africa.
  • nubilosa Clancey, 1957   -  North-eastern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, south-western Zambia, western Zimbabwe and eastern South Africa.
  • ortleppi (Tristram, 1869)   -  Central South Africa.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Black-chested Prinia (Prinia flavicans) - 10 files


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