Fuelleborn's Longclaw

Fuelleborn's Longclaw

Taxobox
name = Fuelleborn's Longclaw


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Motacillidae
genus = "Macronyx"
species = "M. fuellebornii"
binomial = "Macronyx fuellebornii"
binomial_authority = Reichenow, 1900
synonyms =

The Fuelleborn's Longclaw ("Macronyx fuellebornii") is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, moist savanna, and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

The name of this bird commemorates the German physician Friedrich Fülleborn.

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/53116/all Macronyx fuellebornii] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 26 July 2007.


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