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Alternative name: Banded Warbler

Subspecies somalicum
Photo by volker sthamer
Yabello, Ethiopia, March 2012

Parisoma boehmi

Sylvia boehmi

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Africa: Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania.

Photo by Valéry Schollaert
d'Arusha, Tanzania, September 2010

[edit] Taxonomy

The genus Parisoma was split from the genus Sylvia in the late 1990's (Lepage, 2008).

[edit] Subspecies

Parisoma boehmi has three subspecies^[1]:

• P. b. somalicum:

• Ethiopia and Somalia

• P. b. marsabit:

• North-central Kenya

• P. b. boehmi:

• Southern Kenya and Tanzania

Photo by megan perkins
Magadi Road, Kenya, December 2006

[edit] Habitat

Dry savanna.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase

• List of references

[edit] External Links