Sharpe's apalis

Sharpe's apalis (Apalis sharpii) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

Sharpe's apalis
In Ghana
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cisticolidae
Genus:	Apalis
Species:	A. sharpii
Binomial name
Apalis sharpii Shelley, 1884

It is found in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

Sharpe's apalis was described by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley in 1884. He coined the binomial name Apalis sharpii. Both the common name and the specific epithet honour the English ornithologist and museum curator Richard Bowdler Sharpe.^[2]