The common whitestar thrush [2] ( lat. Pogonocichla stellata ) is an African species of passerines from the family of flycatchers (Muscicapidae), isolated in the monotypic genus Pogonocichla [3] . Birds inhabit plantations, rural gardens, subtropical and tropical lowland and mountain humid forests, as well as (lowland) wet and arid shrublands [4] . The body length is 15-16 cm [5] .
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Subspecies
- Pogonocichla stellata stellata - east and south of South Africa [1] ;
- Pogonocichla stellata transvaalensis - North of South Africa [1] ;
- Pogonocichla stellata chirindensis - east of Zimbabwe [1] ;
- Pogonocichla stellata hygrica - west of Mozambique [1] ;
- Pogonocichla stellata orientalis - west, east and south of Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique;
- Pogonocichla stellata guttifer - Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) [1] ;
- Pogonocichla stellata helleri - Taita Hills (Kenya and northeast Tanzania);
- Pogonocichla stellata macarthuri - the hills of Chulu (southeast of Kenya) [1] ;
- Pogonocichla stellata intensa - north and central Kenya and north of Tanzania [1] ;
- Pogonocichla stellata elgonensis - Mount Elgon (Kenya and Uganda) [1] ;
- Pogonocichla stellata ruwenzorii - northeast Congo, southwest Uganda, west Rwanda and Burundi [1] ;
- Pogonocichla stellata pallidiflava - Mount Imathong (south of Sudan) [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Taxonomy and distribution (English) . Ovenbirds (Furnariidae) . IBC.Lynxeds.com. The appeal date is February 8, 2011. Archived April 9, 2012.
- ↑ Boehme RL , Flint V. Ye. The five-language dictionary of animal names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Under total. ed. Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang, "RUSSO", 1994. - p. 309. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Pogonocichla stellata (English) . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
- ↑ Information (English) . BirdLife.org. The appeal date is February 8, 2011. Archived April 9, 2012.
- ↑ Ian Sinclair & Phil AR Hockey. Larger Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa. - Struik Publishers, 2004. - p. 328. - 448 p. - ISBN 1-77007-243-8 .