Red-vented Malimbe (Malimbus scutatus)

Family
Ploceidae (Weavers)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1849)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and swamp forest, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Cameroon, C�te dIvoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

Red-vented Malimbe (Malimbus scutatus) [XC710710]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Mont B\u00e9ro, Guinea (call, song)

Red-vented Malimbe (Malimbus scutatus) [XC217114]
by Lars Lachmann from Parc National de la For\u00eat de Ta\u00ef, Ivory Coast (call)

Subspecies
Has been thought to form a superspecies with Cassin's Malimbe (Malimbus cassini).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

scutatus (Cassin, 1849) - Southern and south-eastern Sierra Leone, south-eastern Guinea, Liberia, southern Ivory Coast, south-western Ghana.
scutopartitus Reichenow, 1894 - South-eastern Benin, southern Nigeria and south-western Cameroon.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-vented Malimbe (Malimbus scutatus) - 10 files

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