Lowland Akalat

Sheppardia cyornithopsis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestDomed nestSmall · 18 g

When to see the Lowland Akalat

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Lowland Akalat

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 7 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Guinea, Nigeria, Congo - Brazzaville, Tanzania.

About the Lowland Akalat

The lowland akalat is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Its disjunct range extends across the African tropical rainforest. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

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