Brown-backed Scrub Robin
Cercotrichas hartlaubi(Reichenow, A, 1891)
English (US) Brown-backed Scrub Robin
The Brown-backed Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas hartlaubi) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: locally in southern Cameroon; northwestern Angola to western Kenya and northwestern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cercotrichas hartlaubi
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-backed Scrub Robin
- Described by
- (Reichenow, A, 1891)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Erythropygia hartlaubi
- Described by
- (Reichenow, A, 1891)
- Type locality
- Mutjara [= Mutsora, near Ruwenzori, Congo].
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 39, no.193 p.63
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
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Kalahari Scrub Robin
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White-browed Scrub Robin
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Indian Robin
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Madagascar Magpie-Robin
Copsychus albospecularis
Seychelles Magpie-Robin
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