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 LC    Ruwenzori Hill-Babbler* Id (Atlas):
    Sylvia atriceps

Description (8)
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Other Names (World)
Ruwenzori Hill-Babbler, Rwenzori Hill-Babbler, Rwenzori Hill Babbler

Family
Sylviidae (Old World Warblers And Parrotbills)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe, 1902)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 900 - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Uganda.

South-eastern Nigeria, western and central Cameroon (but not Mt Cameroon), north-eastern DRCongo, south-western Uganda and Rwanda.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (35)...)

 
Rwenzori Hill Babbler (Sylvia atriceps) [XC105990]
     by Brian Cox from Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Mount Bugulumiza, Congo (Democratic Republic) (song)

 
Rwenzori Hill Babbler (Sylvia atriceps) [XC105602]
     by Josh Engel from Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Mount Bugulumiza, Congo (Democratic Republic) (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Illadopsis abyssinica and Illadopsis atriceps (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped as abyssinica and transferred to the genus Pseudoalcippe following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Species often treated as conspecific with African Hill Babbler (Sylvia abyssinica), and strongly similar in voice, but presence in Nigeria and Cameroon, in close proximity to western populations of latter, tends to indicate that the two are distinct.

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of African Hill Babbler (Sylvia abyssinica).


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Ruwenzori Hill-Babbler (Sylvia atriceps) - 8 files


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