Moustached Grass Warbler

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Photo by barty63
Nairobi National Park, Kenya

Photo by safariranger
Near a rural village between Luambe and North Luangwa National Parks, Zambia

Melocichla mentalis

Identification

Length 18-19 cm. A large, plain warbler with a dark, broad, rounded tail. It has a black malar stripe and unstreaked breast and backand.

Distribution

Tropical Africa

Taxonomy

Melocichla mentalis has five subspecies:^[1]

• M. m. mentalis

• Senegambia to Gabon, southern Zaire, Angola, Zambia and northern Malawi

• M. m. amauroura

• Southern Sudan to south-western Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia

• M. m. orientalis

• Eastern Kenya to southern Tanzania, southern Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique

• M. m. incana

• North-eastern Tanzania

• M. m. luangwae

• Zambia

Habitat

Long, rank grass adjacent to forest.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. 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) Moustached Grass Warbler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Moustached_Grass_Warbler

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