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DeutschMoustached grass warbler
| Moustached grass warbler | |
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| specimen at Nairobi National Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Macrosphenidae |
| Genus: | Melocichla Hartlaub, 1857 |
| Species: | M. mentalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Melocichla mentalis (Fraser, 1843) | |
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The moustached grass warbler (Melocichla mentalis) is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae.
It is widely found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, although absent in southern parts of the continent. Its natural habitats are moist savanna and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Melocichla mentalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22714634A94422599. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22714634A94422599.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
External links
[edit]- Moustached grass warbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.