The streaky-breasted flufftail (''Sarothrura boehmi'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family Sarothruridae. It is sparsely spread across wet grasslands of central Africa. The name of this bird commemorates the German zoologist

Richard Böhm Richard Böhm (1 October 1854 − 27 March 1884) was a German zoologist and explorer. Life Richard Böhm was the son of Ludwig Böhm, a prominent Physician and Franziska Louise (born Franziska Meyerlinck). As a child, he received a copy of Br ...

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* Streaky-breasted flufftail
Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
streaky-breasted flufftail Fauna of Zambia streaky-breasted flufftail Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Gruiformes-stub