Drakensberg prinia

Drakensberg prinia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Prinia
Species:
P. hypoxantha
Binomial name
Prinia hypoxantha
(Sharpe, 1877)

The Drakensberg prinia or saffron-breasted prinia (Prinia hypoxantha) is a small passerine bird. It lives in eastern South Africa and Eswatini.

It lives in the Drakensberg's forest edges, wooded gullies and bracken covered slopes. The Drakensberg prinia was formerly considered to be a subspecies P. m. hypoxantha of the Karoo prinia, P. maculosa.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Prinia hypoxantha". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22729387A95013809. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22729387A95013809.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.