Parulide gialla di montagna

Identificazione

This is a medium-sized bird with an olive and yellow coloration throughout the plumage. The head and back of the bird are olive-green in color, while the stomach is vibrant yellow. This bird's bill is very short and dark brown. The adult male and female are very similar in looks while the adolescent is browner and a paler yellow color. This bird is known for being very territorial.

Tassonomia

Nome scientifico

Iduna similis

Autorità

(Richmond, 1897)

Ordine

Passeriformi

Famiglia

Acrocephalidae

Genere

Iduna

Areale e habitat

The Mountain Yellow Warbler is spread across many areas throughout Africa such as South Sudan, Northeast and Southwest Uganda, highlands of DR Congo, West Rwanda, West Burundi, Kenya, North and East Tanzania, and Nyika Plateau on the Zambia border. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. Common areas where this bird may be spotted are in places of vegetation or within bushes found along swampy valleys. The Mountain Yellow Warbler is known to be in high altitudes of the forest areas. This bird's movement tends to be sedentary where they will stay in a place for an extended period of time.

Migrazione

Resident species

Conservazione

The Mountain Yellow Warbler is not a globally threatened species. They are distributed locally in a fragmented range in and around East Africa’s highlands. They are reasonably adaptive to their surroundings and can thrive in secondary habitats because they are found to not be dependent on forests.

Tendenza della popolazione

stable