Rufous chatterer
Species of bird
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| image = Flickr - Rainbirder - Rufous Chatterer pair (Turdoides rubiginosus).jpg | image_caption = At Watamu, Kenya | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = | taxon = Argya rubiginosa | authority = (Rüppell, 1845) | synonyms = Turdoides rubiginosa
The rufous chatterer (Argya rubiginosa) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
This species was formerly placed in the genus Turdoides but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Argya.
References
- Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
References
- BirdLife International. (2018). "''Argya rubiginosa''".
- (2018). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy". Zoologica Scripta.
- (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". International Ornithologists' Union.
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