| Fan-tailed grassbird | |
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| near Pietermaritzburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Locustellidae |
| Genus: | Catriscus Cabanis, 1851 |
| Species: | C. brevirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Catriscus brevirostris (Sundevall, 1850) | |
| Synonyms | |
Catriscus apicalis | |
Thefan-tailed grassbird orbroad-tailed warbler (Catriscus brevirostris) is an African species ofOld World warbler in the familyLocustellidae. The species is closely related to thebroad-tailed grassbird of India, and is sometimes treated as the same species,[2] although a 2018 study found that it and the broad-tailed grassbird were not closely related, with the Indian species being a sister ofChaetornis striata.[3]
The species has a discontinuous distribution across Africa, and is found inAngola,Burundi,Cameroon,Republic of the Congo,Democratic Republic of the Congo,Eswatini,Equatorial Guinea,Ethiopia,Gabon,Guinea,Kenya,Malawi,Mozambique,Nigeria,Rwanda,Sierra Leone,South Africa,South Sudan,Tanzania,Uganda,Zambia, andZimbabwe. It is found in grassy areas dominated by grasses, sedges or shrubs near water (streams, rivers or lakes), from 350–2,150 m (1,150–7,050 ft).[2]
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