Evergreen forest warbler

Evergreen forest warbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Locustellidae
Genus: Bradypterus
Species: B. lopezi
Binomial name
Bradypterus lopezi
(Alexander, 1903)
Synonyms

Bradypterus lopesi

The evergreen forest warbler or Cameroon scrub-warbler (Bradypterus lopezi) is a grass warbler species in the family Locustellidae. It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.

It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

It has a subspecies, Bradypterus lopezi mariae, found in central and western Kenya to northern Tanzania.

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