Black-headed Apalis

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Cisticolidae

Genus

Apalis

eBird Code

blhapa1

Subspecies (9)

• Apalis melanocephala addenda

  southern Mozambique

• Apalis melanocephala adjacens

  southeastern Malawi

• Apalis melanocephala fuliginosa

  southeastern Malawi (Mulanje and Thyolo mountains)

• Apalis melanocephala lightoni

  western Mozambique to southeastern Zimbabwe

• Apalis melanocephala melanocephala

  southern Somalia to coastal Kenya and coastal northeastern Tanzania

• Apalis melanocephala moschi

  southern Kenya (Taita Hills) and highlands of eastern Tanzania

• Apalis melanocephala muhuluensis

  southeastern Tanzania (Mahenge and Songea)

• Apalis melanocephala nigrodorsalis

  highlands of Kenya

• Apalis melanocephala tenebricosa

  northern Mozambique (Njesi Plateau, Mount Chiperoni, and Mount Namuli)