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Photo by Mike Barth
Nairobi National Park, Kenya, June 2012

Identification

Central Africa: southern South Sudan, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and western Kenya south to central and eastern Zambia and central Malawi; rare nonbreeding visitor to Ethiopia

This is either a monotypic species^[1] or two subspecies are recognized, cardinalis and rhodesiae^[2].

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
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