Fan-tailed grassbird
| Fan-tailed grassbird | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Locustellidae |
| Genus: | Schoenicola |
| Species: | S. brevirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Schoenicola brevirostris Sundevall, 1850 | |
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Catriscus apicalis | |
The fan-tailed grassbird or broad-tailed warbler (Schoenicola brevirostris) is a species of Old World warbler in the Locustellidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Schoenicola brevirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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External links
- Fan-tailed grassbird - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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