| Red-capped crombec | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Macrosphenidae |
| Genus: | Sylvietta |
| Species: | S. ruficapilla |
| Binomial name | |
| Sylvietta ruficapilla Barboza du Bocage, 1877 | |
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The red-capped crombec (Sylvietta ruficapilla) is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae.
It is found in Angola, Republic of the Congo, the DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Botswana.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. The Red-Capped Crombec(Sylvietta ruficapilla) belongs to the Sylviidae family, a family considered Old World Warblers with it being a member of the genus Sylvietta. The Red-Capped Crombec are found in sub-Saharan Africa near countries like the Republic of Congo, DRC, Zambia, and Mozambique.
The Red-Capped Crombec has been observed to breed at the end of the dry season for countries like the Republic of Congo, DRC, Zambia, and Mozambique. They are stationary birds that nest using grass, and spider webs creating a cup shaped nest. They are often found nesting in trees and occasional tall, thick shrubs. The Red-Capped Crombec are found to be territorial of their nesting sites, often having 2-4 eggs, and the egs incubate for around 12 days. Typical African Warblers such as the red capped crombec tend to lay their eggs during the months september-march. They breed once yearly.
The Red-Capped Crombec forages on insects found throughout The Republic of Congo and DRC in tree tops and shrubs. Their diet includes ants, beetles, caterpillars, and spiders. The red-capped Crombec has been observed using its sharp bills to pick insects off of tree leaves and shrubs on the ground. It has been recorded that the Red-Capped Crombec will join other mixed-species parties when foraging for food.
The Red-Capped Crombec is a small bird recorded to be ranging around 11 to 12 cm(4.3 to 4.7 inches) in size. It has a red almost burnt orange cap on its head, with the body being an olive-brown plumage. The wings and tail are often found to be darker with the under parts lighter being a pale yellow hue. The Red-Capped Crombec has a slim, sharp bill used for catching insects.
The family of birds the crombec falls into is the Sylvietta, which means a type of african warbler. All the other species in its family can be linked as seen as below:
The crombecs belong to a more prominent family called the Macrosphenidae. The macrosphenidae or african warblers. The macrosphenidae is broken up into 5 different subspecies. “Macrosphenus or longbills, (link), Sphenoeacus – cape grassbird, melocichla - moustached grass warbler, cryptillas- victorians’ warbler, and sylvietta -crombecs and contain 9 species.
Old World warblers are a large group of birds formerly grouped together in the bird family Sylviidae. They are not closely related to the New World warblers. The family held over 400 species in over 70 genera, and were the source of much taxonomic confusion. Two families were split out initially, the cisticolas into Cisticolidae and the kinglets into Regulidae. In the past ten years they have been the subject of much research and many species are now placed into other families, including the Acrocephalidae, Cettiidae, Phylloscopidae, and Megaluridae. In addition some species have been moved into existing families or have not yet had their placement fully resolved. A smaller number of warblers, together with some babblers formerly placed in the family Timaliidae and the parrotbills, are retained in a much smaller family Sylviidae.
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The African warblers are a newly erected family Macrosphenidae, of African songbirds. Most of the species were formerly placed in the Old World warbler family Sylviidae, although one species, the rockrunner, was placed in the babbler family, Timaliidae. A series of molecular studies of the Old World warblers and other bird families in the superfamily Sylvioidea found that the African warblers were not part of Sylviidae but were instead an early (basal) offshoot of the entire clade Sylvioidea. Some taxonomic authorities place the entire family Hyliidae here.
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