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- Cercotrichas paena
Erythropygia paena
Identification
Distribution
Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Taxonomy
Cercotrichas paena has four subspecies:[1]
- C. p. benguellensis
- South-western Angola
- C. p. damarensis
- Namibia
- C. p. paena
- Botswana to Zimbabwe, north-western and north-central South Africa
- C. p. oriens
- Western Free State to southern Zimbabwe
Birds from the arid north-west are paler than those from the wetter south-east. There is little known about transition zones between subspecies; boundaries are somewhat arbitrary.[2]
Habitat
Shrubland and short open woodland with areas of bare ground.
Behaviour
References
- 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.
- Hockey, PAR, WRJ Dean, and PG Ryan, eds. 2005. Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa. 7th ed. Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. ISBN 978-0620340533
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Kalahari Scrub Robin. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 14 May 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Kalahari_Scrub_Robin
