Bar-throated Apalis

Apalis thoracica (Shaw, 1811)

Bar-throated Apalis, Apalis thoracica, is a passerine of the Cisticolidae family found in southern Africa. It lives in forest and scrub across southern and eastern parts of the region, with its northern populations confined to highland country. A narrow dark band across the breast helps identify it, and the species also shows a pale eye and white outer tail-feathers. Its range reaches from South Africa north to the Chyulu Hills in Kenya, and several mountain populations are isolated enough that some are treated as separate species.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies

Breeding range

Africa: s