The yellow-breasted apalis (Apalis flavida) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.
Yellow-breasted apalis | |
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A. f. subsp. neglecta, male | |
A. f. subsp. neglecta, female | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cisticolidae |
Genus: | Apalis |
Species: | A. flavida
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Binomial name | |
Apalis flavida (Strickland, 1853)
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Taxonomy
editThe brown-tailed apalis (A. flavocincta) was formerly considered conspecific, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021.[2]
Range
editIt is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Habitat
editIts natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, and moist savanna.
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Apalis flavida". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103772612A94388867. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103772612A94388867.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-06-13.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Apalis flavida.
- Yellow-breasted apalis - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.