Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 1 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 2 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 3 — Photo: Rafael Würtemberger · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 4 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 5 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 6 — Photo: Sandra Keller · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 7 — Photo: Sandra Keller · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 8 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 9 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Black-faced Rufous Warbler (Bathmocercus rufus), photo 10 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

What the Black-faced Rufous Warbler sounds like

Sonogram of the Black-faced Rufous Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by paulo kivuyo · Call, song · Minziro forest reserve, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Black-faced Rufous Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-faced Rufous Warbler

Regular range

The map shades 10 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Uganda Kenya Rwanda Congo - Kinshasa Cameroon Equatorial Guinea Burundi Tanzania Congo - Brazzaville Gabon

About the Black-faced Rufous Warbler

The black-faced rufous warbler is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Black-headed Rufous WarblerBathmocercus cerviniventrisThe black-headed rufous warbler, also known as the black-capped rufous warbler, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

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