Bush blackcap

Bush blackcap
At Giant's Castle Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Sylviidae
Genus:	Sylvia
Species:	S. nigricapillus
Binomial name
Sylvia nigricapillus (Vieillot, 1818) [2]
Synonyms
Turdus nigri capillus (protonym) Lioptilus nigricapillus Alcippe nigricapillus

The bush blackcap (Sylvia nigricapillus) is a species of bird in the family Sylviidae. It is endemic to South Africa and Eswatini. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss. ^[1]

Immature bush blackcap

References

1. BirdLife International (2017). "Sylvia nigricapillus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T22716650A118400733. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22716650A118400733.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. Vieillot, 1818. Turdus nigri capillus (protonym). Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., nouv. éd., 20, p. 256. BHL

• Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). Handbook of the Birds of the World . Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN   978-84-96553-42-2

External links

• Bush blackcap - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.