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Puvel's Illadopsis - BirdForum Opus

Ssp. strenuipes
Photo © by rezMole
Uganda, 28 February 2022

Alternative names: Puvel's Akalat; Puvel's Thrush-Babbler

Illadopsis puveli

Identification

17 - 18cm. A Thrush-like Babbler, very similar to Rufous-winged Illadopsis:

  • Rufous-tinged brown crown with vague mottling
  • Upperparts and tail rufous-brown
  • Brown head-sides and lores with a vague buffy supercilium
  • Whitish streaks on cheek
  • Whitish underparts with warm peachy buff across breast, breast side brown
  • Bill with black to blackish upper mandible, lower mandible yellow

Confusion species

Very similar to Rufous-winged Illadopsis and best distinguished by voice and habitat. Note also bill (yellow lower mandible) and buff breast band (not greyish)

Distribution

Found in West Africa from Gambia and Senegal east to Nigeria and Cameroon. Also in extreme northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, extreme south Sudan and west Uganda.
Uncommon to common in its range.

Taxonomy

Two subspecies recognized:

Habitat

Undergrowth in lowland gallery forest, farmbush, riverine and ravine thickets, second growth, forest-grassland mosaic and savanna. Up to 1500m in Liberia.

Behaviour

Feeds on invertebrates (ants, spiders and others).
Usually seen singly or in pairs, also joins bird waves. Forages on the ground in leaf litter, running from one place to the other.
Breeding season November in Ivory Coast, March in Sudan. One described nest was a mossy cup 2 m high in a tree fork and held two nestlings.
Resident species.

References

  1. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553422
  2. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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External Links

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