- Calamonastes stierlingi
Identification
13 cm
Rufous-brown upperparts with two wing bars, pale underside with narrow black barring, paler supercilium over dark eye-line, relatively long black bill and yellow legs.
Distribution
A triangle from Tanzania around Dar es Salaam to south east Angola to South Africa at the south end of the Kruger National Park.
Taxonomy
Four subspecies are recognized[1].
- C. s. stierlingi - Southeast Angola to northeast Namibia, southern Zambia, eastern Tanzania and Mozambique.
- C. s. olivascens - Southern coastal Tanzania to Malawi and coastal Mozambique
- C. s. irwini - Extreme eastern Zambia to Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
- C. s. pintoi - northeastern South Africa, eSwatini, and extreme southern Mozambique
Stierling's Wren-Warbler is recently split from Miombo Wren-Warbler
Habitat
Dense thickets and woodland but somewhat picky in the type.
Behaviour
Mostly resident. Food seems to consist mainly of insects.
Vocalisation
Hurried three to four note song at high pitch.
References
- 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/
- Ryan, P. (2020). Stierling's Wren-Warbler (Calamonastes stierlingi), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.miowrw3.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Stierling's Wren-Warbler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Stierling%27s_Wren-Warbler
