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Brown-backed Scrub Robin

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Photo by Toy JanssenFort Portal, Uganda, January 2009
Photo by Toy Janssen
Fort Portal, Uganda, January 2009
Cercotrichas hartlaubi

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[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Africa: found locally in southern Cameroon; north-western Angola to western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Subspecies kenia is generally considered invalid[2].

Placed in genus Erythropygia by Gill and Donsker.

[edit] Habitat

Moist savanna.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

  1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. Wikipedia

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