Brown Parisoma - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by megan perkins
Nairobi, Kenya, December 2006

Alternative name: Brown Warbler

Curruca lugens

Sylvia lugens

Distribution

Tropical Africa: From Sudan and Ethiopia in the north to Zambia and Malawi in the south.

Taxonomy

Juvenile, subspecies griseiventre
Photo by nick scarle
Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, February 2007

This is a polytypic species^[1] consisting of 5 subspecies.
Formerly placed in the genus Parisoma.

Subspecies

Gray-vented

• C. l. griseiventris:

• Southern Ethiopia (Bale Mountains)

Brown

• C. l. lugens:

• Ethiopia

• C. l. jacksoni:

• Sudan and Uganda to Kenya, northern Tanzania, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi

• C. l. prigoginei:

• Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Itombwe Mountains)

• C. l. clara:

• Tanzania (Matengo Highlands)

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Brown Parisoma. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 30 April 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brown_Parisoma

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