Brubru

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Malaconotidae

Genus

Nilaus

eBird Code

brubru1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (10)

• Nilaus afer afer

  Senegal to the Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia

• Nilaus afer affinis

  central highlands of western Angola and adjacent southern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Nilaus afer brubru

  southern Angola to northern Cape Province

• Nilaus afer camerunensis

  southern Cameroon and Central African Republic to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Nilaus afer hilgerti

  eastern Ethiopia

• Nilaus afer massaicus

  southwestern Kenya to northern Tanzania, Rwanda, and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Nilaus afer minor

  southeastern Sudan to Somalia, northern and eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania

• Nilaus afer miombensis

  coastal KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique (Sol do Save region)

• Nilaus afer nigritemporalis

  eastern Angola, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, and northern Mozambique

• Nilaus afer solivagus

  local in KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, and far southern Mozambique