Cinnamon Bracken Warbler (Bradypterus cinnamomeus) [XC470589]
by Rolf A. de By from Aberdare Forest, Nyeri County, Kenya (song)
Cinnamon Bracken Warbler (Bradypterus cinnamomeus) [XC182099]
by Phil Gregory from Ruhija, Western Region, Uganda (alarm 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 African Scrub-Warbler (Bradypterus barratti) and, probably, Bangwa Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis). Formerly treated as conspecific with Bangwa Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis). These species and Cameroon Scrub-Warbler (Bradypterus lopezi) make up a group of similar Afrotropical sylviids of forest and forest edge. Subspecies ufipae of Cameroon Scrub-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).