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 LC    Greencap Eremomela* Id (Atlas):
    Eremomela scotops Vagrant

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Green-capped Eremomela, Greencap Eremomela, Dusky-faced Warbler

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
11 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sundevall, 1850

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (22)...)

 
Green-capped Eremomela (Eremomela scotops) [XC700126]
     by Cameron Blair from Nthawa (near Siakago), Siakago, Embu County, Kenya (call)

 
Green-capped Eremomela (Eremomela scotops) [XC339175]
     by Peter Boesman from Mutinondo Wilderness area, Northern Province, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Senegal Eremomela (Eremomela pusilla), Green-backed Eremomela (Eremomela canescens) and Karoo Eremomela (Eremomela gregalis). Subspecies congensis intergrades with pulchra in northern Angola. Birds from this region sometimes recognized as subspecies angolensis.

Proposed subspecies occipitalis (described from R Pangani, in north-eastern Tanzania) and chlorochlamys (from Zimbabwe-Mozambique border) synonymized with nominate.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • congensis Reichenow, 1905   -  South-eastern Gabon (Lekoni) south to northern Angola, east to south-western DRCongo (Kasai).
  • pulchra (Barboza du Bocage, 1878)   -  Angola, south-eastern and eastern DRCongo (Maniema and northern end of L Tanganyika south to Katanga), Zambia, western Malawi, north-eastern Namibia, and northern Botswana.
  • citriniceps (Reichenow, 1882)   -  South-western Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
  • kikuyuensis van Someren, 1931   -  Central Kenya.
  • scotops Sundevall, 1850   -  Coastal Kenya, eastern Tanzania (inland to Liwale, Songea and Kilosa), eastern and southern Malawi, northern and central Mozambique, Zimbabwe and adjacent eastern Botswana, north-eastern South Africa (Northern Province south to northern KwaZulu-Natal) and northern Swaziland.



References
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Files:
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