Red-winged Warbler (Prinia erythroptera)

Other Scientific Names
Heliolais erythroptera [BirdLife International (2004)], Heliolais erythroptera [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Heliolais erythroptera [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)]

Other Names (World)
Red-winged Prinia, Red-winged Warbler

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
12 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Jardine, 1849)

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Niger.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (18)...)

Red-winged Prinia (Prinia erythroptera) [XC739408]
by Peter Boesman from Semuliki National Park, Bundibugyo, Western Region, Uganda (song)

Red-winged Prinia (Prinia erythroptera) [XC441090]
by Murray Christian from Kombo South, West Coast Region, Gambia (alarm call)

Subspecies
Often placed in genus Prinia.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

erythropterus (Jardine, 1849) - Senegal to southern Mali and northern Cameroon.
jodopterus (Heuglin, 1864) - Cameroon, Central African Republic, northern DRCongo, southern Sudan and north-western Uganda.
major (Blundell & Lovat, 1899) - Western Ethiopia.
rhodopterus (Shelley, 1880) - South-western Kenya, eastern Tanzania, eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-winged Warbler (Prinia erythroptera) - 10 files

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