Black-crowned Tchagra

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Malaconotidae

Genus

Tchagra

eBird Code

bkctch1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (9)

• Tchagra senegalus armenus

  southern Cameroon southward to Angola and eastward to northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western South Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, and Tanzania, southward to Malawi, northern Mozambique, and northern Zimbabwe

• Tchagra senegalus cucullatus

  coastal Morocco to Algeria and Tunisia

• Tchagra senegalus habessinicus

  southern Sudan to Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia

• Tchagra senegalus kalahari

  southern Angola, northern Namibia, southwestern Zambia, and northwestern Zimbabwe to northern South Africa

• Tchagra senegalus nothus

  Mali to northern Nigeria and Lake Chad

• Tchagra senegalus orientalis

  southern Somalia southward through coastal Kenya and eastern Tanzania to central and eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique, eastern South Africa (south to Eastern Cape), and Eswatini

• Tchagra senegalus percivali

  southern Arabian Peninsula

• Tchagra senegalus remigialis

  central Chad to central Sudan (Darfur, Kordofan, and Nile Valley)

• Tchagra senegalus senegalus

  Senegal and Sierra Leone to Mali, southern Chad, and Central African Republic