Sharpe's Akalat (Sheppardia sharpei)
About the Sharpe's Akalat
Sharpe's akalat (Sheppardia sharpei) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Tanzania and northern parts of Zambia and Malawi. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Sharpe's akalat was described by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley in 1903. He coined the binomial name Callene sharpei. Sharpe's akalat is now placed in the genus Sheppardia that was introduced by the South African ornithologist Alwin Karl Haagner in 1909. Both the common name and the specific epithet honour the English ornithologist and museum curator Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
No audio on this page yet
We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 58 recordings for this species: 42 CC BY-NC-SA · 7 CC BY-NC-ND. 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.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Tanzania, Zambia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Other birds you can hear here
- African BroadbillSmithornis capensisrecording
- African CuckooCuculus gularisrecording
- African GoshawkAccipiter tachirorecording
- African HoopoeUpupa africanarecording
- African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimprecording
- African Reed WarblerAcrocephalus baeticatusrecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.