Hartlaub's babbler
| Hartlaub's babbler | |
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| In a wetland in the Matetsi Safari Area of western Zimbabwe | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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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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]
Range[]
The species is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, DRC, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Gallery[]
In a garden at Shakawe, Botswana, showing white vent plumage
Perched in woodland at Moremi, Botswana
View of the white rump plumage
References[]
- ^ 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[]
- Hartlaub's babbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Turdoides
- Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Birds of Southern Africa
- Birds described in 1868