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Red-capped Forest Warbler
Artisornis metopias (Reichenow, 1907)
Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
Red-capped Forest Warbler, Artisornis metopias, is a bird of montane forest in Tanzania and Mozambique in Africa. It belongs to the family Cisticolidae and was first described by Reichenow in 1907. Its breeding range is in eastern Africa. It is found in moist subtropical or tropical mountain forest between 1600 and 2500 m. The species is also known as the African tailorbird. Two subspecies are recognised, one in northeast Tanzania to northwest Mozambique and another in the Uluguru Mountains of east Tanzania.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
- Breeding range
- Africa: e
