Usambara akalat

(Sheppardia montana)

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Description

Sheppardia montana has a very small range of c.930 km2 in the West Usambara Mountains,Tanzania,of which it is thought to occupy just c.140 km2 of suitable habitat.The total population was conservatively estimated to be 28,000 birds at the beginning of the 1980s (van der Willigen and Lovett 1981).

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Muscicapidae
Genus:Sheppardia
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