Grimwood's Longclaw
Macronyx grimwoodiBenson, CW, 1955
English (US) Grimwood's Longclaw
The Grimwood's Longclaw (Macronyx grimwoodi) 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 Motacillidae (Wagtails and Pipits) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: wet grassland of eastern Angola to southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo and far northwestern ZambiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Macronyx grimwoodi
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Grimwood's Longclaw
- Described by
- Benson, CW, 1955
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Benson, CW, 1955
- Type locality
- Chitunta plain, Mwinilunga, Northern Rhodesia.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 75 p.102
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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