Cisticolas & Allies

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Prinia subflava

The Tawny-flanked Prinia (Prinia subflava) is an 8.6 g scrub bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family
Cisticolas & Allies
Order
Passeriformes
Weight
8.6 g
Habitat
Shrubland
Diet
Invertebrates
Migration
Resident
Countries recorded
34

Recorded in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Ghana, Gambia, eSwatini, Ethiopia, Namibia, Senegal, Taiwan, Malawi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Angola, Liberia, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Benin, Guinea, China, Sierra Leone, Togo, Chad, Gabon, Mali.

Where to see it: Ouaga 2000 (Burkina Faso); National Park Bamako (Mali); Brazzaville Radisson Blu/Mami Wata (Republic of the Congo); Tower Hill, Liberia, West Africa (Liberia); Grand-Bassam—Pont de la Victoire et Lagune Ouladine (Côte d'Ivoire).

Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons