Brown-backed Scrub Robin - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by Toy Janssen
Fort Portal, Uganda, January 2009

Cercotrichas hartlaubi

Distribution

Africa: found locally in southern Cameroon; north-western Angola to western Kenya and north-western Tanzania.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Subspecies kenia is generally considered invalid^[2].

Habitat

Moist savanna.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2023) Brown-backed Scrub Robin. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 1 December 2023 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brown-backed_Scrub_Robin

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