Moustached grass warbler
| Moustached grass warbler | |
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| specimen at Nairobi National Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Macrosphenidae |
| Genus: | Melocichla Hartlaub, 1857 |
| Species: | M. mentalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Melocichla mentalis Fraser, 1843 | |
The moustached grass warbler (Melocichla mentalis) is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the Sylviidae family.
It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are moist savanna and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Melocichla mentalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- Moustached grass warbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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