Red-winged Prinia (Prinia erythroptera)
About the Red-winged Prinia
The red-winged prinia or the red-winged warbler (Prinia erythroptera) is a bird species in the family Cisticolidae. It formerly belonged in the monotypic genus Heliolais. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, where its natural habitat is dry savanna. The red-winged prinia was described by the Scottish naturalist William Jardine in 1849 under the binomial name Drymoica erythroptera. The type locality is West Africa. The specific epithet erythroptera comes from the Ancient Greek eruthros for "red" and -pteros, "-winged".
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 18 recordings for this species: 2 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Ashy PriniaPrinia socialisrecording
- Grey-breasted PriniaPrinia hodgsoniirecording
- Jungle PriniaPrinia sylvaticarecording
- Rufous-fronted PriniaPrinia buchananirecording
- Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflavarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.