Silvia dal cappuccio rosso

Identificazione

The Red-Capped Crombec is a small bird recorded to be ranging around 11 to 12 cm(4.3 to 4.7 inches) in size. It has a red almost burnt orange cap on its head, with the body being an olive-brown plumage. The wings and tail are often found to be darker with the under parts lighter being a pale yellow hue. The Red-Capped Crombec has a slim, sharp bill used for catching insects.

Tassonomia

The family of birds the crombec falls into is the Sylvietta, which means a type of african warbler. All the other species in its family can be linked as seen as below: <p>The crombecs belong to a more prominent family called the Macrosphenidae. The macrosphenidae or african warblers. The macrosphenidae is broken up into 5 different subspecies. “Macrosphenus or longbills, (link), Sphenoeacus – cape grassbird, melocichla - moustached grass warbler, cryptillas- victorians’ warbler, and sylvietta -crombecs and contain 9 species.

Nome scientifico

Sylvietta ruficapilla

Autorità

Barboza du Bocage, 1877

Ordine

Passeriformi

Famiglia

Macrosphenidae

Genere

Sylvietta

Areale e habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. The Red-Capped Crombec(Sylvietta ruficapilla) belongs to the Sylviidae family, a family considered Old World Warblers with it being a member of the genus Sylvietta. The Red-Capped Crombec are found in sub-Saharan Africa near countries like the Republic of Congo, DRC, Zambia, and Mozambique. It is found in Angola, Republic of the Congo, the DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Botswana.

Migrazione

Resident species

Conservazione

Tendenza della popolazione

stable