Babblers (Timaliidae)
Sharpe's Babbler (Turdoides sharpei) - HBW 12, p. 222
French: Cratérope de Sharpe
German: Schwarzzügeldrossling
Spanish: Turdoide de Sharpe
Other common names: Sharpe’s Pied Babbler
Taxonomy: Crateropus sharpei Reichenow, 1891, Kakoma, south-west Tanzania.
May form a superspecies with T. squamulata and T. hypoleuca, possibly including also T. hindei. Alternatively suggested as part of a superspecies with T. melanops, T. leucopygia and T. hartlaubii. Often treated as conspecific with T. melanops. Proposed race clamosus (Rift Valley in Kenya) merged with nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- sharpei ( Reichenow, 1891) - extreme E DRCongo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda (except N), SW Kenya and NW & W Tanzania.
- vepres R. Meinertzhagen, 1937 - Nanyuki area, on slopes of Mt Kenya (C Kenya).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on a tree top, calling. Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp sharpei)
Josep del Hoyo 8 September 2006 5 years ago 36 sec 4.2 -
just outside bwindi Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp sharpei)
Daniêl Jimenez 21 September 2010 2 years ago 41 sec 3.3
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A bird perched on a plant
Locality Bushara Island, Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda
Piotr Jonczyk 3 March 2011 1 year ago 4.3 -
A bird searching for food.
Locality Bushara Island, Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda
Tadeusz Rosinski 3 March 2011 26 weeks ago 4.3 -
In a marshy lake at the entrance of the National Park
Locality Mburo Lake National Park, Uganda
auf 18 August 2009 3 years ago 4
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A bird calling. Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(ssp sharpei)
Josep del Hoyo 8 September 2006 19 weeks ago 3
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