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Photo by Mike Barth
Nairobi National Park, Kenya, June 2012

Alternative name: African Moustached Warbler

Melocichla mentalis

Identification

Length 18-19 cm. A large, plain warbler with a dark, broad, rounded tail. It has a black malar stripe and unstreaked breast and backand.

Distribution

Tropical Africa

Taxonomy

Photo by safariranger
Near a rural village between Luambe and North Luangwa National Parks, Zambia, July 2006

Melocichla mentalis has five subspecies:[1]

  • M. m. mentalis
  • M. m. amauroura
  • M. m. orientalis
  • M. m. incana
  • M. m. luangwae

Habitat

Long, rank grass adjacent to forest.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154
  3. Lepage D. (2021) [Avibase - https://avibase.ca/1478AA79]. Retrieved 4 January 2021

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