White-starred Robin

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Muscicapidae

Genus

Pogonocichla

eBird Code

whsrob1

Subspecies (10)

• Pogonocichla stellata elgonensis

  Mt. Elgon region (border of east-central Uganda with west-central Kenya)

• Pogonocichla stellata guttifer

  Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro (far north-central Tanzania)

• Pogonocichla stellata helleri

  Taita Hills (far southeastern Kenya) and Pare Mountains (far northeastern Tanzania)

• Pogonocichla stellata intensa

  north-central Kenya to northern Tanzania (except for Chyulu and Taita hills of southeastern Kenya and Pare Mountains, Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro of northern Tanzania)

• Pogonocichla stellata macarthuri

  Chyulu Hills (southeastern Kenya)

• Pogonocichla stellata orientalis

  southwestern to northeastern Tanzania (except Pare Mountains, Mount Meru, and Mount Kilimanjaro of northern Tanzania) to Malawi and northern Mozambique

• Pogonocichla stellata pallidiflava

  Imatong Mountains (southeastern South Sudan)

• Pogonocichla stellata ruwenzorii

  Albertine Rift of Kivu region (northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo), southwestern Uganda, western Rwanda, and western Burundi

• Pogonocichla stellata stellata

  southern and eastern South Africa (from southern Western Cape to Free State and KwaZulu-Natal)

• Pogonocichla stellata transvaalensis

  eastern Zimbabwe, northeastern South Africa (Limpopo) and southern Mozambique