Fan-tailed Grassbird (Schoenicola brevirostris)

Other Names (World)
Fan-tailed Grassbird, Fan-tailed Grass-warbler, Fan-tailed Swamp-warbler, African Fan-tailed Warbler, African Broad-tailed Warbler, African Broad-tailed Warbler

Family
Locustellidae (Grasshopper-warblers And Grassbirds)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sundevall, 1850)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland seasonally wet / flooded grassland. Also, subtropical and tropical high altitude grassland, shrubland, marshes, swamps, freshwater lakes, rivers, streams.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (28)...)

Fan-tailed Grassbird (Catriscus brevirostris) [XC398226]
by Peter Boesman from Entrance road Nyika NP, Malawi (call, song, call and song)

Fan-tailed Grassbird (Catriscus brevirostris) [XC449666]
by Dries Van de Loock from Howick, Indlovu DC, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
Treated as forming a superspecies with Broad-tailed Grassbird (Schoenicola platyurus). Often considered conspecific with Broad-tailed Grassbird (Schoenicola platyurus). Subspecies alexinae intergrades with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

brevirostris (Sundevall, 1850) - Malawi and north-western Mozambique south to eastern South Africa (south to eastern Cape), Swaziland and Lesotho.
alexinae (Heuglin, 1863) - Sierra Leone (Tingi Mts) and adjacent parts of Guinea; extreme south-eastern Nigeria and Cameroon, southern Gabon and PRCongo east to eastern DRCongo, south to central and south-western Angola, northern and central Zambia and Malawi, and southern Sudan, western highlands of Ethiopia, and Rift Valley mountains in western and central Uganda, western and southern Kenya and western and northern Tanzania.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Fan-tailed Grassbird (Schoenicola brevirostris) - 7 files

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