Family Grasshopper-warblers and Grassbirds (Locustellidae)
Least Concern
Bamboo Warbler (Bradypterus alfredi)
Taxonomy
French: Mégalure des bambous German: Graubrust-Buschsänger Spanish: Zarzalero del bambú
Taxonomy:
Bradypterus alfredi
Hartlaub
, 1890,Nyangabo, north-east DRCongo
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Subspecies and Distribution
B. a. alfredi
Hartlaub, 1890 – W Ethiopia (Didessa, Bulchra Forest, Gambela), SE South Sudan (Gilo, in Imatong Mts), E DRCongo (S Lendu Plateau and Rwenzoris S to highlands NW of Baraka) and W & E Uganda (Bugoma Forest, Mubuku Valley, Kotido, Mt Morongole and Mt Elgon)#R.
B. a. kungwensis
Moreau, 1942 – W Tanzania (Mt Kungwe, Mt Mahare), SE DRCongo (Lwiru and Dipidi, in Upemba National Park) and NW Zambia (NW Mwinilunga).
Descriptive notes
15 cm. A dark brown and greyish warbler with pale-tipped undertail-coverts, comparatively short tail of twelve broad rounded feathers. Nominate race has top and side of head... read more
Voice
Song a series of hard disyllabic notes, “tchi-ka, tchi-ka, tchi-ka”, repeated 2·... read more
Habitat
Varied, both in and outside forest and at forest edge; bamboo, dense ground cover and tall grass... read more
Food and feeding
Insects. Forages in ground stratum, below 1·5 m.
Breeding
No information.
Movements
Sedentary.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Rare and localized throughout its range, for reasons that remain obscure.
Has been considered allied to B. sylvaticus (which see); to date, present species has not been screened genetically. Two subspecies recognized.