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#WarblersOfinstagram #RedWingedWarbler #Warblers BirdsOfinstagram Red-winged warbler #HeliolaisErythropterus jodopterus 1869 Kingdom: #AnimaliaSeria Phylum: #ChordataSeria Class: #AvesSeria Order: #PasseriformesSeria Family: #CisticolidaeSeria Genus: #HeliolaisSeria Sharpe, 1903 Species: #HeliolaisErythropterusSeria (Jardine, 1849) Taxonomy: The red-winged warbler was described by the Scottish naturalist William Jardine in 1849 under the binomial name #DrymoicaErythroptera. The type locality is West Africa. The specific epithet erythropterus comes from the Ancient Greek eruthros for "red" and -pteros, "-winged". There are four subspecies: #HeliolaisErythropterusErythropterus (Jardine, 1849) – #SenegalBirdsSeria to northern #CameroonBirdsSeria #HeliolaisErythropterusJodopterus (Heuglin, 1864) – central Cameroon to southern #SudanBirdsSeria and northwestern #UgandaBirdsSeria #HeliolaisErythropterusMajor (Blundell & Lovat, 1899) – #EthiopianBirdsSeria #HeliolaisErythropterusRhodopterus (Shelley, 1880) – #KenyanBirdsSeria to eastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique #WarblersSeria #WarblersSeria #BirdsSeria #AfricanBirdsSeria #AfricanWarblersSeria #AfricanAnimalsSeria #28November2017Seria #28NovemberSeria 2017NovemberSeria 2017TuesdaySeria (African Love Bird Society)
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