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 LC    Mountain Flycatcher-Warbler* Id (Atlas):
    Iduna similis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Mountain Yellow Warbler, Mountain Flycatcher-Warbler, Mountain Warbler, Mountain Yellow Flycatcher, Highland Flycatcher-warbler, Mountain Yellow-Warbler

Family
Acrocephalidae (Reed-warblers)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Richmond, 1897)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, high altitude shrubland. From 1,800 - 3,700 m.

Range (Guide)
Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia.

Southern Sudan (Imatongs, Dongatona Mts, Didinga Hills), north-eastern and south-western Uganda (Mt Morongole, south-western highlands), highlands of eastern DRCongo, western Rwanda and western Burundi (Ruwenzoris south to Itombwe and Mt Kabobo), Kenya (Mt Kulal, Mt Elgon, western and central highlands), northern and eastern Tanzania (Crater Highlands east to Mt Kilimanjaro, and Ngurus and Ukagurus south to Njombe), and Nyika Plateau on Zambia-Malawi border.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
Mountain Yellow Warbler (Iduna similis) [XC799249]
     by id from Aberdare National Park, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Genus generally considered as having affinities with Acrocephalus and Hippolais. This species usually regarded as forming a species pair with Yellow Flycatcher-Warbler (Iduna natalensis), and the two were formerly treated as flycatchers (Muscicapidae).


References
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Files:
JPG files for Mountain Flycatcher-Warbler (Iduna similis) - 10 files


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