Brown-headed Apalis (Apalis alticola)

Sex; Female. Age; Adult. Subspecies; looks most like the nominate race (A. a. alticola). Udzungwa Mts, July 2007. Copyright@; Louis A. Hansen. It was sexed due to the shape and the feathering of the cloacae region. Note the olive tinge to the primaries, also the same shade of olive on the upper tail coverts. Not mentioned in e.g. Birds of Africa (BoA). Also eye colour not like in BoA - most books do not get the eye colour right in many Apalis species.

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