Buff-throated Apalis

Female
Photo by Toy Janssen
Location: Uganda, January, 2009

Apalis rufogularis

Includes Kungwe Apalis

Identification

Length 12 cm. Dark grey above. White below. Relatively short tail for an Apalis.

Distribution

Tropical Africa: Nigeria to Uganda, Tanzania and Angola.

Taxonomy

Apalis rufogularis has seven subspecies:^[2]

• A. r. sanderi

• South-western Nigeria

• A. r. rufogularis

• Eastern Nigeria to Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic and the island of Bioko

• A. r. angolensis

• North-western Angola

• A. r. brauni

• Western Angola

• A. r. argenteus

• Eastern DRC to Rwanda, Burundi and western Tanzania
• Regarded as a separate species Kungwe Apalis by some authorities^[1][3]
• Classified as Endangered in the 2007 IUCN Red List^[1]

• A. r. nigrescens

• South-western Sudan to DRC, Zambia, north-eastern Angola, Uganda and north-western Tanzania

• A. r. kigezi

• South-western Uganda

Habitat

Forest.

Behaviour

Tends to stay well hidden.

References

1. BirdLife International. 2007. Species factsheet: Apalis argentea. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 8/5/2008.
2. 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.
3. Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
4. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Buff-throated Apalis. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 5 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Buff-throated_Apalis

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