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Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola)

Brown-headed Apalis
Photo: Tom Field via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Brown-headed Apalis

The brown-headed apalis (Apalis alticola) is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Apalis in the family Cisticolidae. Formerly included within the grey apalis (A. cinerea) but is now commonly considered to be a separate species. It has two subspecies: A. a. alticola and A. a. dowsetti.

Source: Brown-headed apalis on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Brown-headed Apalis. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (0:14) via xeno-canto.org/660219, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia · xeno-canto lists 33 recordings for this species in total.

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