African Warblers
Macrosphenidae
The African warblers are a newly erected family Macrosphenidae, of songbirds. Most of the species were formerly placed in the Old World warbler family Sylviidae, although one species, the rockrunner, was placed in the babbler family Timaliidae. A series of molecular studies of the Old World warblers and other bird families in the superfamily Sylvioidea (which includes the larks, swallows and tits) found that the African warblers were not part of the family Sylviidae but were...
6 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 18 known species
Crombecs
genusSylvietta
Grassbirds
genusSphenoeacus
Cryptillas
genusCryptillas
Melocichla
genusMelocichla
Rockrunners
genusAchaetops
African Longbills
genusMacrosphenus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 144307.