The short-tailed akalat (''Sheppardia poensis'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It has a scattered range throughout Central Africa. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical

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s, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The short-tailed akalat was formerly considered conspecific to Bocage's akalat (''Sheppardia bocagei''), but was split as a distinct species by the

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in 2021.

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Short-tailed akalat Birds of Central Africa Short-tailed akalat Taxa named by Boyd Alexander {{Muscicapidae-stub