The eastern nicator (''Nicator gularis'') is a species of
songbird in the family
Nicatoridae.
It is found in
Eswatini
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
,
Kenya,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Somalia,
South Africa,
Tanzania,
Zambia, and
Zimbabwe.
Its natural
habitats are subtropical or tropical dry
forests, dry
savanna, and subtropical or tropical moist
shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It m ...
. It occurs south to around Mtunzini in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and is regularly reported from lowland areas north through to east Africa, including inland areas along the Zambezi River.
This species was formerly called the "yellow-spotted nicator" although this is no longer the case, with that name now belonging solely to the central African
western nicator.
References
External links
* Eastern Nicator (= Yellow-spotted Nicator)
Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
eastern nicator
Birds of East Africa
eastern nicator
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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