Bamenda Apalis

Apalis bamendae

A slender, plain sooty-gray apalis with red eyes and a buffy-brown forehead and throat. Juvenile is paler than the adult, with a dingy cream belly. Resident, inhabiting canopy and middle levels of both primary and patchy degraded forest between 700 and 2000 meters in mountains and hilly areas in the Bamenda Highlands and Adamawa Plateau of Cameroon, where no similar apalises occur. Vocalizations include a monotonous “dleep-dleep-dleep” and a whip-like 3-noted “tee-twi-dip, tee-twi-dip, tee-twi-dip.”

Taxonomy

Scientific name
Apalis bamendae
Authority
Bannerman, 1922
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cisticolidae
Genus
Apalis

Range and habitat

Migration
Resident species

Conservation

Population trend
stable

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Distribution

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