Mountain Illadopsis (Illadopsis pyrrhoptera) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestCup nestSmall · 25 g

Mountain Illadopsis (Illadopsis pyrrhoptera), photo 1 — Photo: Rafael Würtemberger · CC BY 4.0

Mountain Illadopsis (Illadopsis pyrrhoptera), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Rafael Würtemberger, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Mountain Illadopsis

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 Mountain Illadopsis

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 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.

Uganda Rwanda Kenya Congo - Kinshasa Burundi

Recorded as a rare visitor in Malawi.

About the Mountain Illadopsis

The mountain illadopsis is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae. It is found in the Albertine Rift montane forests, Kenya, northern Malawi and western Tanzania. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

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Easily confused with

Pale-breasted IlladopsisIlladopsis rufipennisThe pale-breasted illadopsis is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae. Blackcap IlladopsisIlladopsis cleaveriThe blackcap illadopsis is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae. Puvel's IlladopsisIlladopsis puveliPuvel's illadopsis is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae.

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