Grey-winged robin-chat

The grey-winged robin-chat or grey-winged akalat (Sheppardia polioptera) is a bird in the family Muscicapidae.^[2] The species was first described by Anton Reichenow in 1892.

Grey-winged robin-chat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Sheppardia
Species:	S. polioptera
Binomial name
Sheppardia polioptera (Reichenow, 1892)
Synonyms
Cossypha polioptera

It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.