Red-winged warbler
| Red-winged warbler | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Heliolais Sharpe, 1903 |
| Species: | H. erythropterus |
| Binomial name | |
| Heliolais erythropterus (Jardine, 1849) | |
The red-winged warbler (Heliolais erythropterus) is a bird species in the family Cisticolidae. It belongs to the monotypic genus Heliolais.[2] It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, where its natural habitat is dry savanna.[1]
References
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Heliolais erythropterus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ "ITIS Report: Heliolais". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
External links
- Red-winged warbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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