Babblers (Timaliidae)
Scaly-breasted Illadopsis (Illadopsis albipectus) - HBW 12, p. 187
French: Akalat à poitrine écaillée
German: Schuppenbrust-Buschdrossling
Spanish: Tordina Pechiescamada
Other common names: Scaly-breasted Thrush-babbler
Taxonomy: Turdinus albipectus Reichenow, 1887, Stanley Falls, DRCongo.
Formerly placed in genus Malacocincla. May form a superspecies with I. cleaveri; occasionally treated as conspecific, but plumages distinctive and ranges parapatric. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- barakae (F. J. Jackson, 1906) - SE Central African Republic, NE DRCongo, extreme S Sudan, W & SW Uganda and W Kenya.
- albipectus (Reichenow, 1887) - W & NC DRCongo.
- trensei (Meise, 1978) - NW Angola.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird singing from a branch Locality Jacana Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp barakae)
Josep del Hoyo 5 September 2006 6 years ago 38 sec 4.9 -
A bird singing and moving among branches Locality Jacana Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp barakae)
Josep del Hoyo 5 September 2006 6 years ago 35 sec 4.9
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Adult perched
Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp barakae)
Nik Borrow 23 August 2011 1 year ago 3.5
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A bird singing in the forest. Locality Jacana Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
(ssp barakae)
Josep del Hoyo 4 September 2006 20 weeks ago 4
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