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 LC    White-tailed Ant-Thrush* Id (Atlas):
    Neocossyphus poensis

Description (10)
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Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Strickland, 1844)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (19)...)

 
White-tailed Ant Thrush (Neocossyphus poensis) [XC666257]
     by Peter Boesman from Minziro, Missenyi, Kagera Region, Tanzania (call, song)

 
White-tailed Ant Thrush (Neocossyphus poensis) [XC217116]
     by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Parc National de la For\u00eat de Ta\u00ef, Ivory Coast (call, song)

Subspecies
Genus closest to Stizorhina, the two forming a group which, in turn, is most closely related to New World Myadestes.

Described subspecies pallidigularis (from northern Angola), kakamegoes (from Kakamega Forest, in Kenya) and nigridorsalis (northern Nandi Forest, in western Kenya) all considered indistinguishable from praepectoralis.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • poensis (Strickland, 1844)   -  Sierra Leone east to Cameroon, Gabon and southern PRCongo, also Bioko I (Fernando Póo).
  • praepectoralis Jackson, 1906   -  Western DRCongo and north-western Angola east to western Uganda and western Kenya.
  • kakamegoes Cunningham-van Someren & Schifter, 1981   -  Western Kenya (Kakamega Forest).
  • nigridorsalis Cunningham-van Someren & Schifter, 1981   -  Western Kenya (northern Nandi Hills).
  • pallidigularis Meise, 1958   -  North-western Angola (Canzele).



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for White-tailed Ant-Thrush (Neocossyphus poensis) - 10 files


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