Grey-winged robin-chat
The grey-winged robin-chat or grey-winged akalat (Sheppardia polioptera) is a bird in the family Muscicapidae.[2] The species was first described by Anton Reichenow in 1892.
| Grey-winged robin-chat | |
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| 3. C. polioptera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Sheppardia |
| Species: | S. polioptera |
| Binomial name | |
| Sheppardia polioptera (Reichenow, 1892) | |
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It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Cossypha polioptera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- Collar, N. (2019). "Grey-winged Akalat (Sheppardia polioptera)". In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D. A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
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