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 LC    Cinnamon-breasted Bunting* Id (Atlas):
    Emberiza tahapisi

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting, Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting, African Rock Bunting

Family
Emberizidae (Old World Buntings)

Size
16 - 17 cm

First Described (Guide)
Smith, 1836

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland and shrubland, dry savanna, rocky areas. From 200 - 2,900 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi (B) (NB), Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman (B), Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Egypt.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (121)...)

 
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Emberiza tahapisi) [XC707806]
     by Peter Boesman from City of Matlosana (near Klerksdorp), Southern DC, North West, South Africa (call)

 
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting (Emberiza tahapisi) [XC444479]
     by Oscar Campbell from Ayn Hamran, Dhofar, Oman (song)

Subspecies
Subspecies septemstriata sometimes thought to be a hybrid between nominate and goslingi.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • goslingi Smith, 1836   -  Mauritania and Senegal east to Cameroon, north-eastern DRCongo and south-western Sudan. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Grey-throated Bunting (Emberiza goslingi).
  • septemstriata Rüppell, 1837   -  Eastern Sudan and northern and central Ethiopia east to Eritrea and north-western Somalia.
  • arabica (Lorenz von Liburnau, L & Hellmayr, 1902)   -  Southern Arabia.
  • insularis (Ogilvie-Grant and H. O. Forbes, 1899)   -  Socotra I.
  • tahapisi Smith, 1836   -  Southern Ethiopia south through eastern Africa to south-eastern South Africa. Also locally in Angola, and southern Gabon east to southern DRCongo.
  • nivenorum (Winterbottom, 1965)   -  Southern Angola south to central Namibia.



References
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Files:
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