African Hill Babbler (Sylvia abyssinica)
About the African Hill Babbler
The African hill babbler (Sylvia abyssinica) is a species of bird in the family Sylviidae. The African hill babbler was described by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1840 under the binomial name Drymophila abyssinica. The type locality is the Simen Mountains, northern Ethiopia. There are currently six recognised subspecies: S. a. monachus (Reichenow, 1892) – Mount Cameroon S. a. claudei (Alexander, 1903) – Bioko Island (formerly Fernando Póo) S. a. ansorgei (Rothschild, 1918) – west-central Angola, southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo and western Tanzania S. a. stierlingi (Reichenow, 1898) – eastern and southwestern Tanzania, the Nyika Plateau in northeastern Zambia and northern Malawi and northwestern Mozambique
A real field recording of the African Hill Babbler. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda · xeno-canto lists 88 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.