Sylvietta ruficapilla
(Red-capped crombec)
Rooikroonstompstert [Afrikaans]; Roodkapkrombek
[Dutch]; Crombec à calotte rousse [French]; Rotohr-sylvietta [German];
Rabicurta-de-barrete-vermelho [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: Sylvietta
Distribution and habitat
It occurs from southern DRC through Angola and Zambia to
north-eastern Mozambique. A fragment of its Mozambique population is within
southern Africa; it was also collected west of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe in 1961.
It generally prefers the canopy of miombo woodland.
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Distribution of Red-capped crombec 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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