Winifred's warbler

Winifred's warbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Scepomycter
Species: S. winifredae
Binomial name
Scepomycter winifredae
(Moreau, 1938)[2]
Synonyms

Bathmocercus winifredae

Winifred's warbler (Scepomycter winifredae), also known as Mrs. Moreau's warbler, is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. The species was discovered and named by the ornithologist Reginald Moreau after his wife.

The species was originally described in the genus Artisornis based on an immature male specimen. The species was found in the Kinole forest north of Uluguru. The bird is mostly olive green above with the forehead and crown being rufous brown as are the sides of the head and chest. The chin is whitish.[3] Moreau later moved it to the genus Scepomycter after examining museum specimens and obtaining new specimens of adults through his collector Charles Abdallah who lured the specimens by imitating the low whistles of a Malaconotus.[4] The genus Scepomycter was traditionally been considered monotypic, but in 2009 a closely related new species was described, the Rubeho warbler.[5] Alternatively, the Winifred's warbler has sometimes been included in the genus Bathmocercus with which it forms a clade that is a sister of the genus Cisticola.[6][7] It is endemic to montane forest in the Uluguru Mountains in Tanzania. Populations in the Rubeho-Ukaguru Mountains are the very similar Rubeho warbler, and the status as vulnerable is for the "combined" species. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Bathmocercus winifredae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Moreau, R.E. (1938). "Artisornis winifredae, sp. nov". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 58: 139.
  3. ↑ Moreau, R.E. (1938). "A new Artisornis". Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. 58: 139.
  4. ↑ Moreau, R.E. (1946). "The adult of Mrs Moreau's Warbler". Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. 66: 44.
  5. ↑ Bowie, Rauri C. K.; Fjeldsa, Jon; Kiure, Jacob (2009). "Multilocus molecular DNA variation in Winifred's Warbler Scepomycter winifredae suggests cryptic speciation and the existence of a threatened species in the Rubeho-Ukaguru Mountains of Tanzania". Ibis. 151 (4): 709–719. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.2009.00954.x. ISSN 0019-1019.
  6. ↑ Olsson, Urban; Irestedt, Martin; Sangster, George; Ericson, Per G.P.; Alström, Per (2013). "Systematic revision of the avian family Cisticolidae based on a multi-locus phylogeny of all genera". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66 (3): 790–799. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.004. ISSN 1055-7903.
  7. ↑ Nguembock, Billy; Fjeldså, Jon; Tillier, Annie; Pasquet, Eric (2007). "A phylogeny for the Cisticolidae (Aves: Passeriformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data, and a re-interpretation of an unique nest-building specialization". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 42 (1): 272–286. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.07.008. ISSN 1055-7903.


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