Long-billed crombec

Long-billed crombec
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Macrosphenidae
Genus: Sylvietta
Species:
S. rufescens
Binomial name
Sylvietta rufescens
(Vieillot, 1817)
S. r. resurga, Kruger National Park

The long-billed crombec or Cape crombec (Sylvietta rufescens) is an African warbler.

The long-billed crombec breeds in southern Africa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Tanzania southwards to South Africa.

This is a common species in fynbos, open woodland, savannah and dry Acacia scrub.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Sylvietta rufescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22715140A94441847. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22715140A94441847.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.