Black-headed rufous warbler

Black-headed rufous warbler
Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1883
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cisticolidae
Genus:	Bathmocercus
Species:	B. cerviniventris
Binomial name
Bathmocercus cerviniventris (Sharpe, 1877)
Synonyms
Apalis cerviniventris

The black-headed rufous warbler (Bathmocercus cerviniventris), also known as the black-capped rufous warbler, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swampland, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

In 2020, the population of this bird in Liberia was estimated to be 60,000 pairs. The bird is rare in Ghana where there have been only one or two records. ^[2]

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Bathmocercus cerviniventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T22714569A131970438. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22714569A131970438.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Pearson, D. (2020). Black-capped Rufous-Warbler (Bathmocercus cerviniventris), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.

• Ryan, Peter. (2006). Family Cisticolidae (Cisticolas and allies). pp. 378–492 in del Hoyo J., Elliott A. & Christie D.A. (2006) Handbook of the Birds of the World . Volume 11. Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers Lynx Edicions, Barcelona ISBN   978-84-96553-06-4
• Nguembock B.; Fjeldsa J.; Tillier A.; Pasquet E. (2007): A phylogeny for the Cisticolidae (Aves: Passeriformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data, and a re-interpretation of a unique nest-building specialization. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution42: 272–286.