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 DD    Black-capped Rufous Warbler* Id (Atlas):
    Bathmocercus cerviniventris

Description (3)
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Other Names (World)
Black-headed Rufous-warbler, Black-headed Rufous Warbler, Black-capped Rufous Warbler, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Stream Warbler, Black-capped Rufous-Warbler

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
12 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe, 1877)

Habitat
Dense secondary vegetation bordering small creeks and rivers in primary and secondary forest, swamp forest, gallery forest, sub-montane forest. More rarely, lowland forest.

Range (Guide)
Côte dIvoire (B) (NB), Ghana (B) (NB), Guinea (B) (NB), Liberia (B) (NB), Sierra Leone (B) (NB).

Locally in Upper Guinea forest from Sierra Leone and SEGuinea east to central Ivory Coast and southern Ghana.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status DD
Habitat disturbance through logging of adjacent areas is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
In pairs.

Voice
A distinctive, three-note, piercing, insect-like whistle.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

 
Black-headed Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus cerviniventris) [XC756969]
     by Marc Languy from Ziama Forest, Guinea (song)

 
Black-headed Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus cerviniventris) [XC629696]
     by id from Zortarpa, Yarmein, Nimba, Liberia (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Black-faced Rufous-warbler (Bathmocercus rufus) and sometimes treated as conspecific.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Black-capped Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus cerviniventris) - 3 files


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