Tours where you can spot this bird
1 tour in South Africa
Black-chested Prinia
Prinia flavicans (Vieillot, 1821)
Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
Black-chested Prinia, Prinia flavicans, is a bird of dry savanna in southern Africa, recorded from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It belongs to the Cisticolidae family. Among the prinias of the region, it is the only one with separate breeding and non-breeding plumages. In breeding dress, it shows a charcoal-coloured band across the breast, which gives the bird its name.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
- Breeding range
- Africa: s
