Chapin's Crombec

Chapin's Crombec
Chapin's Crombec
Conservation status
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Macrosphenidae
Genus: Sylvietta
Species: S. leucophrys (but see text)
Subspecies: S. leucophrys chapini
Trinomial name
Sylvietta leucophrys chapini
Schouteden, 1947
Synonyms

Sylvietta chapini

The Chapin's Crombec (Sylvietta leucophrys chapini) is an enigmatic African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It is currently considered a subspecies of the White-browed Crombec, but might be a distinct species; too little is known about it to determine this now with reasonable certainty.

It is found only on the Lendu Plateau, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was removed from the IUCN Red List in 2007 as it is considered a White-browed Crombec subspecies, pending further research. It was previously considered a species of Least Concern, though actually it has not been encountered for some time, and might even be extinct. However, this is not very likely given the fairly low rates of bird extinctions in Africa - compared to, e.g., South America and Southeast Asia. In any case, the Second Congo War, and especially the Ituri conflict, have completely prevented any effort to relocate these birds.[1].

Footnotes

  1. ^ See Baillie et al. (2004).

References

  • Baillie, J.E.M.; Hilton-Taylor, C. & Stuart, S.N. (eds.) (2004): 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. A Global Species Assessment. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. ISBN 2-8317-0826-5
  • BirdLife International (2004): Sylvietta chapini. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 10 July 2007.


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