Yellow-breasted apalis

Species of bird

Yellow-breasted apalis
A. f. subsp. neglecta, male
A. f. subsp. neglecta, female
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Apalis
Species:
A. flavida
Binomial name
Apalis flavida
(Strickland, 1853)

The yellow-breasted apalis (Apalis flavida) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

Taxonomy

The brown-tailed apalis (A. flavocincta) was formerly considered conspecific, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021.[2]

Range

It 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

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, and moist savanna.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-06-13.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Apalis flavida.
  • Image at ADW


  • Yellow-breasted apalis - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
Taxon identifiers
Apalis flavida


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