Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida

Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida

Yellow-breasted Apalis, Mole National Park, Ghana, June 2011 - click for larger image

Ghana and Ethiopia

The Yellow-breasted Apalis is distributed in Africa south of the Sahara but is missing from the Congo Basin and most of South Africa except the east coast. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in a variety of habitats from gallery forest, forest edges, woodland and scrub.

Yellow-breasted Apalis, Yabello, Ethiopia, January 2016 - click for larger image

The Apalises are slender warblers with long, graduated tails and are normally included in the same family as Cisticolas. The Yellow-breasted Apalis has green upperparts and white underparts with a yellow breast band. The eye is reddish brown with a thin red eyering. There are 9 sub-species with varying amounts of green or grey on the head and some have a black band on the breast below the yellow. Photo 1 is of the sub-species A. f. caniceps which has an entirely grey crown.

Photos 2 to 4 from Ethiopia are of the sub-species A. f. abyssinica and you can see a black band across the chest in photo 2.

The song is a rhythmic chirup-chirup repeated at about 3 to 4 notes per second.

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