Grey-winged Robin-Chat (Sheppardia polioptera)

Other Names (World)
Grey-winged Akalat, Gray-winged Akalat, Grey-winged Robin-Chat, Gray winged Robin Chat, Gray-winged Akelat, Gray-winged Robin, Gray-winged Robin Chat, Gray-winged Robin-Chat, Grey winged Robin Chat, Grey-winged Akelat, Grey-winged Robin, Grey-winged Robin Chat, White-browed Robin Chat

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
Reichenow, 1892

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

Grey-winged Robin-Chat (Cossypha polioptera) [XC585238]
by id from Hillood Farm, Mwinilunga, North-western Province, Zambia (song)

Grey-winged Robin-Chat (Cossypha polioptera) [XC508871]
by Paul Lenrum\u00e9 from Mad Man's crossing, Jimbe drainage, North-western province, Zambia (song)

Subspecies
Proposed subspecies grimwoodi (known only from type locality in Mwinilunga District, in northern Zimbabwe) merged with nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

polioptera Reichenow, 1892 - Southern Sudan, western and southern Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Burundi, north-western and eastern Angola, extreme north-western Zambia and southern DRCongo.
nigriceps Reichenow, 1910 - Sierra Leone, northern Liberia, western Ivory Coast, central and eastern Nigeria and adjacent central Cameroon.
tessmanni Reichenow, 1921 - Eastern Cameroon.

References
See References.

Files:

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