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Tag Archives: Angola
Maccoa Duck (Oxyura maccoa): Revise global status?
Posted in Africa, Duck, Threatened Waterfowl
Tagged Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Maccoa Duck, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania
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Chestnut-banded Plover (Charadrius pallidus): Revise global status?
Posted in Africa
Tagged Angola, Botswana, Chestnut-banded Plover, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
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Damara Tern (Sternula balaenarum): Revise global status?
Posted in Africa
Tagged Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Damara Tern, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo
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Cape Vulture (Gyps coprotheres): Revise global status?
Posted in Africa, Vultures
Tagged Angola, Botswana, Cape Vulture, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Loango Weaver (Ploceus subpersonatus): Revise global status?
Posted in Africa
Tagged Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Loango Weaver
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Archived 2020 topic: Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx mechowi) is being split: assessment of newly recognised taxa.
Birdlife International factsheet for Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo. Following a taxonomic reassessment, Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo (Cercococcyx mechowi) has been split into Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo (C. mechowi), and Whistling Long-tailed Cuckoo (C. lemaireae) (see Boesman and Collar, 2019). The newly-split Dusky Long-tailed … Continue reading
Archived 2020 topic: Gabela Bush-shrike (Laniarius amboimensis): Revise global status?
BirdLife International factsheet for Gabela Bush-shrike. Gabela Bush-shrike is endemic to Angola, and inhabits escarpment forests, secondary forest, and degraded farmbush (Fry, 2020). The main threat to Gabela Bush-shrike is habitat loss and degradation through agricultural practices (Mills, 2010). The … Continue reading
Archived 2019 topic: Monteiro’s Bush-shrike (Malaconotus monteiri): revise global status?
BirdLife species factsheet for Monteiro’s Bush-shrike Monteiro’s Bush-shrike (Malaconotus monteiri) is known from a small number of records from a few sites in Angola and Cameroon. In Angola, recent surveys found it to be relatively rare (Cáceres et al. 2015), … Continue reading
Archived 2016 topics: Damara Tern (Sternula balaenarum): uplist from Near Threatened to Vulnerable?
BirdLife species factsheet for Damara Tern: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3282 Damara Tern (Sternula balaenarum) breeds along the coast of southern Angola, Namibia and South Africa (Crawford & Simmons 1997, Simmons 2010, Braby 2011). A total of 70 known breeding colonies are found across its … Continue reading
Archived 2016 topics: White-throated Greenbul (Phyllastrephus albigularis) is being split: list P. albigularis as Least Concern and P. viridiceps as Near Threatened?
This is part of a consultation on the Red List implications of extensive changes to BirdLife’s taxonomy for passerines Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International will soon publish the second volume of the HBW-BirdLife Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the … Continue reading
Archived 2016 topics: Meves’s Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis mevesii) is being split: request for information on L. benguelensis.
This is part of a consultation on the Red List implications of extensive changes to BirdLife’s taxonomy for passerines Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International will soon publish the second volume of the HBW-BirdLife Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the … Continue reading