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Red-winged Prinia
Prinia erythroptera (Jardine, 1849)
Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
Red-winged Prinia, Prinia erythroptera, is a passerine in the Cisticolidae family that breeds across western, central and eastern Africa. It is recorded from a wide belt of countries from Senegal and Gambia through the Sahel and central Africa to Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is associated with dry savanna. The species was first described by William Jardine in 1849. It is now placed in Prinia, although it was once treated in its own genus, Heliolais.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae — Cisticolas & Allies
- Breeding range
- Africa: w, c, e
