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 LC    Yellow-throated Longclaw* Id (Atlas):
    Macronyx croceus

Description (10)
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Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1816)

Habitat
Dry savanna, subarctic shrubland. From sea-level - 2,350 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho (B), Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Somalia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (62)...)

 
Yellow-throated Longclaw (Macronyx croceus) [XC408331]
     by Lynette Rudman from Flagstaff (near Mnceba), Transkei District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)

 
Yellow-throated Longclaw (Macronyx croceus) [XC64943]
     by Bram Piot from East part of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (song)

Subspecies
Genus probably closely related to Tmetothylacus and Hemimacronyx. May form a superspecies with Fulleborn's Longclaw (Macronyx fuelleborni). Plumage individually variable, and recognition of subspecies often considered unwarranted.

Proposed subspecies hygricus (Upper Guinea) included in nominate. Subspecies vulturnus sometimes misspelt vulturinus.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • croceus (Vieillot, 1816)   -  Senegambia east to Cameroon, western and southern fringes of Chad, northern and southern Central African Republic, Gabon, north-western and west-central Angola, PRCongo, west, northern and north-eastern DRCongo, southern Sudan, and Uganda and mesic areas of western and central Kenya south to Burundi and north-western and northern Tanzania (south to the Serengeti).
  • tertius Clancey, 1958   -  Coastal lowlands of Kenya and Tanzania.
  • vulturnus Friedmann, 1930   -  Central and southern Tanzania, eastern Zambia (east of Luangwa Valley), Malawi, north-eastern and central Zimbabwe and Mozambique south to south-eastern South Africa.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Yellow-throated Longclaw (Macronyx croceus) - 10 files


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