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 LC    Black Scrub-Robin* Id (Atlas):
    Cercotrichas podobe

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Black Scrub-Robin, Black Bush-robin, Black Bush-chat, Black Scrub Robin

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Müller, 1776)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-bissau, Israel, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen (B).

Vagrant to Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
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Black Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas podobe) [XC595810]
     by Gregory Askew from Madinatal Umran, Al Ahsa, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (uncertain)

 
Black Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas podobe) [XC783654]
     by David Darrell-Lambert from Sindia (near Ndayane), M'bour, R\u00e9gion de Thi\u00e8s, Senegal (song)

Subspecies
Differs from Erythropygia in generally larger size and distinctively black plumage. Subspecies melanoptera apparently intergrades with nominate in western Arabia, where sample of museum skins revealed 25% showing traces of rufous in wing.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • podobe (Müller, 1776)   -  Southern Mauritania and northern Senegal east to north-eastern Sudan, northern Ethiopia and western Arabia. Non-breeding also northern Somalia.
  • melanoptera (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833)   -  Western, central and southern Arabian Peninsula.



References
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