Fitz News in Africa - Birds & Birding: "Out of the woods? Yellow-throated Apalis"

PFIAO. 2011. News from the Percy FitzPatrick Institute. Out of the woods? Yellow-throated Apalis. Africa Birds & Birding16(6):22.

The Yellow-throated Apalis Apalis flavigularis is a small, forest-dwelling passerine confined to three mountain massifs in southern Malawi: Malosa, Zomba and Mulanje. Within these massifs, the species is estimated to occupy a total range of 510 square kilometres, yet its habitat has been and continues to be severely fragmented by forest exploitation. This threat, coupled with the apalis’s small estimated population (2 500 to 10 000 individuals, and decreasing), resulted in its classification as globally Endangered.More...

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