| Bocage's Akalat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Sheppardia |
| Species: | S. bocagei |
| Binomial name | |
| Sheppardia bocagei (Finsch & Hartlaub, 1870) |
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The Bocage's Akalat (Sheppardia bocagei) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The subspecies S. b. poensis on the island of Bioko is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Alexander's Akalat.