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Hyliota flavigaster
(Yellow-bellied hyliota, Yellow-breasted hyliota)
Geelborshyliota [Afrikaans]; Geelbuik-hyliota [Dutch];
Hyliote à ventre jaune [French]; Gelbbauch-hyliota [German];
Papa-moscas-de-papo-amarelo [Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) >
Order: Passeriformes > Family: Sylviidae
> Genus: Hyliota
Distribution and habitat
Occurs in patches across sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal
east to southern Sudan and south through Tanzania to Angola, Zambia and northern
Mozambique. Its distribution marginally extends into the southern African part
of Mozambique, where it occurs in the canopy of Miombo (Brachystegia)
woodland.
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Distribution of Yellow-bellied hyliota in southern Africa,
based on statistical smoothing of the records from first SA Bird Atlas
Project (©
Animal Demography unit, University of
Cape Town; smoothing by Birgit Erni and Francesca Little). Colours range
from dark blue (most common) through to yellow (least common). |
References
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Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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