Akalats
Sheppardia
The akalats (stressed on the second syllable) are medium-sized insectivorous birds in the genus Sheppardia. They were formerly placed in the thrush family, Turdidae, but are more often now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 11 known species
Grey-winged Robin-Chat
speciesSheppardia polioptera
Equatorial Akalat
speciesSheppardia aequatorialis
East Coast Akalat
speciesSheppardia gunningi
Lowland Akalat
speciesSheppardia cyornithopsis
Sharpe's Akalat
speciesSheppardia sharpei
Bocage's Akalat
speciesSheppardia bocagei
Usambara Akalat
speciesSheppardia montana
Gabela Akalat
speciesSheppardia gabela
Iringa Akalat
speciesSheppardia lowei
Short-tailed Akalat
speciesSheppardia poensis
Rubeho Akalat
speciesSheppardia aurantiithorax
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 13224.