Bocagia
| Marsh tchagra | |
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| Adult male T. m. subsp. anchietae in the southern DRC | |
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| Adult female T. m. subsp. remotus at Caia in central Mozambique | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Malaconotidae |
| Genus: | Tchagra |
| Species: | T. minutus |
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Tchagra minutus (Hartlaub, 1858) |
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The marsh tchagra (Tchagra minutus) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae, which is native to marshes in the tropics and subtropics of Africa. It is sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Antichromus or Bocagia. The southern three subspecies intergrade at their contact zones, and are sometimes separated as Anchieta's tchagra (Tchagra anchietae).
It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps.
There are four recognized subspecies:
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