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Alternative names: Little Rush Warbler, African Sedge Warbler

Photo by GarethH
Helderberg Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, December 2005

Bradypterus baboecala

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Africa
Western Africa: Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi
Southern Africa: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Swaziland

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 10 subspecies

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• B. b. centralis:

• Nigeria to southern Cameroon, north-eastern Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, south-western Uganda

• B. b. chadensis:

• Western Chad

• B. b. sudanensis:

• Southern Sudan

• B. b. abyssinicus:

• Ethiopia

• B. b. elgonensis:

• Highlands of western and central Kenya and south-eastern Uganda

• B. b. tongensis (moreaui):

• South-eastern Kenya to Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Natal

• B. b. benguellensis:

• Western Angola

• B. b. msiri (bedfordi):

• Eastern Angola to Zambia, south-eastern Zaire (Shaba) and north-eastern Botswana

• B. b. transvaalensis:

• Central Zimbabwe to western Swaziland, Transvaal, Lesotho and western Natal

• B. b. baboecala:

• Southern South Africa (east to Great Kei River)

[edit] Habitat

Swamps, wetlands, reed and sedge beds

[edit] Behaviour

Normally skulkers, these birds sometimes call from higher up on bulrushes or reeds.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase

• List of references

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