La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	[A record of Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita in Kinshasa, Congo.]
Auteurs :	Armin Puettger-Conradt, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Vogelwelt (Die) (123(2) 2002)
Article en page(s) :	109-109
Résumé :	In January 1989 at least two Chiffchaffs were singing for several days in gardens of suburban Kinshasa (now Democratic Rep. Congo). The familiar 'chiff-chaff' (typical of subspecies collybita and abietinus) song was heard particularly in the mornings. Apart from one other record in southern Zaire (DE SCHAECK 1927), this is the southernmost record of the species in central Africa. Radical habitat changes (deforestation) in the Afrotropical forest belt and a concurrent southward shift of the Sahel zone may favour southward extension of winter ranges of northern migrants favouring open habitats.

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