Ruwenzori hill babbler

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Ruwenzori hill babbler
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sylviidae
Genus: Pseudoalcippe
Species:P. atriceps
Binomial name
Pseudoalcippe atriceps
(Sharpe, 1902)

The Ruwenzori hill babbler (Pseudoalcippe atriceps) is a species of passerine bird in the family Sylviidae that is found in Africa.

Passerine Any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or – less accurately – as songbirds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by the arrangement of their toes, which facilitates perching. With more than 110 families and some 6,409 identified species, Passeriformes is the largest order of birds and among the most diverse orders of terrestrial vertebrates.

Sylviidae family of birds

Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that includes the typical warblers, parrotbills, the wrentit, and a number of babblers formerly placed within the Old World babbler family. They are found in Eurasia, Africa, and the west coast of North America.

The Ruwenzori hill babbler was described by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1902 and given the binomial name Turdinus atriceps. The type locality is the Rwenzori Mountains on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] [3] The specific epithet atriceps is from the Latin ater for "black" and -ceps for "capped" or "headed". [4] The Ruwenzori hill babbler was formerly considered to be a conspecific with the African hill babbler. [5] The species is monotypic. [6]

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Richard Bowdler Sharpe British ornithologist

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Rwenzori Mountains mountain range

The Rwenzori Mountains, previously called the "Ruwenzori Range", is a mountain range of eastern equatorial Africa, located on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). These mountains support glaciers and are one source of the river Nile.


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References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Sylvia atriceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . International Union for Conservation of Nature . Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  2. ↑ Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1902). "Turdinus atriceps". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 13: 10.
  3. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 412–413.
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 59. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. ↑ Collar, N.; Robson, C. (2017). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E., eds. "Ruwenzori Hill-babbler (Sylvia atriceps)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 September 2017. (Subscription required (help)).
  6. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills & white-eyes". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
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