Thursday, August 9, 2012

>Andropadus virens (Little Greenbul)

Little Greenbul



Little Greenbul
Photographed in Gambia
Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Pycnonotidae
Genus:Andropadus
Species:A. virens
Binomial name
Andropadus virens
Cassin, 1858
Synonyms
Eurillas virens
The Little Greenbul (Andropadus virens) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burundi,
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad,Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea,Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya,
Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique,Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and moist savanna.
"Hall's Greenbul", Andropadus (virens) hallae, may be a melanistic form of this species. It is known only from a single specimen taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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