Red-fronted Prinia (Prinia rufifrons)
About the Red-fronted Prinia
The red-fronted prinia (Prinia rufifrons), also known as the red-fronted warbler and the red-faced apalis, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna. The red-fronted prinia was described by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1840 under the binomial name Prinia rufifrons. The type locality is Eritrea (the coastal region of Abyssinia). The specific epithet rufifrons comes from the Latin rufus for "red" and frons for "forehead" or "front". There are three subspecies: P. r. rufifrons Rüppell, 1840 – Chad to northwest Somalia P. r. smithi (Sharpe, 1895) – southeast Sudan to central Somalia and north Tanzania P. r. rufidorsalis (Sharpe, 1897) – southeast Kenya
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 24 recordings for this species: 4 CC BY-NC-ND · 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, Kenya, Tanzania 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.