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m (Njlarsen moved page Green-throated Greenbul to Yellow-throated Mountain Greenbul: This is the name from Clements. The name in IOC is preoccupied in Opus. H&M does not have a name for it. I do not know where the current name came from)
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Revision as of 01:07, 6 June 2021

Alternative name: Yellow-throated Greenbul (which may lead to confusion with Atimastillas flavicollis)

Arizelocichla chlorigula

Identification

18 cm

Distribution

Africa: found in eastern Tanzania (Nguru Mountains and highlands of Iringa District)[1].

Taxonomy

Sometimes considered conspecific with Eastern Mountain Greenbul or placed as subspecies in Southern Mountain Greenbul (A. fusciceps with the subspecies neumanni, fusciceps and flavicollis; the first two are here included in Eastern Mountain Greenbul).

This species was formerly placed in the genus Andropadus.

Habitat

All types of montane forests and riparian woodland.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of fruit, flowers, insects, beetles and spiders.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved January 2015)

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