Hartlaub's babbler (Turdoides hartlaubii) or the Angola babbler, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae, which is native to south central Africa. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub.[2]
Hartlaub's babbler | |
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In a wetland in the Matetsi Safari Area of western Zimbabwe | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Leiothrichidae |
Genus: | Turdoides |
Species: | T. hartlaubii
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Binomial name | |
Turdoides hartlaubii (Barboza du Bocage, 1868)
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Range
editThe species is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, DRC, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Gallery
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In a garden at Shakawe, Botswana, showing white vent plumage
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Perched in woodland at Moremi, Botswana
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View of the white rump plumage
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Turdoides hartlaubii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22716450A94495369. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22716450A94495369.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 180–159–160.
- Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
External links
edit- Hartlaub's babbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.