Buff-spotted flufftail
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| Buff-spotted flufftail | |
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| File:Male Buff-spotted Flufftail in Pigeon Valley, Durban, South Africa, on 26 Jan 2014.jpg | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Sarothruridae |
| Genus: | Sarothrura |
| Species: | S. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Sarothrura elegans (Smith, 1839)
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| Synonyms | |
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Coturnicops elegans | |
The buff-spotted flufftail (Sarothrura elegans) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is found in forested areas[2] of Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Its diet is semi-omnivorous, consisting of various invertebrates as well as grass and tree seeds, which are thought to aid it in grinding other foods.[3][4][5]
Its population is steady.[3]
References
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- ^ del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., and Sargatal, J. 1996. Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 3: Hoatzin to Auks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
- ^ Hockey, P.A.R., Dean, W.R.J. and Ryan, P.G. 2005. Roberts birds of southern Africa. Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, Cape Town, South Africa.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Image at ADW Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
- Sarothrura elegans at avibase.bsc-eoc.org
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