Indian Spotted Creeper (Salpornis) [XC165824]
by Frank Lambert from Northeast of Tal Chappar, Rajasthan, India (song)
Indian Spotted Creeper (Salpornis spilonota) [XC112756]
by id from Churu, Rajasthan, India (call)
Nest
Cup-shaped placed on a horizontal branch, usually in a fork, and camouflaged with spiders' egg sacs, caterpillar frass, and lichen.
Eggs (Guide)
Clutch Size: 2 - 3
Color: blue or greenish, with grey, lavender and brown blotches
Subspecies
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
emini Hartlaub, 1884 - Gambia south to western Guinea, north-western Sierra Leone and northern Ivory Coast eastern discontinuously to northern Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, northern Cameroon, southern Chad (southern from Azoum/Chari confluence) and northern Central African Republic. Also southern Sudan, adjacent north-eastern DRCongo (north-eastern Uele) and extreme north-western Uganda. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of African Spotted Creeper (Salpornis salvadori).
erlangeri Neumann, 1907 - Western and south-eastern Ethiopian Highlands. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of African Spotted Creeper (Salpornis salvadori).
salvadori (Bocage, 1878) - Extreme eastern Uganda and adjacent highlands of western Kenya. Also central Angola, southern and south-eastern DRCongo, most of Zambia, north-east, western and southern Tanzania (southern from near Seast of L Victoria in western and from Songea and Liwale in south-east), Malawi and northern Mozambique (south to R Zambezi). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, African Spotted Creeper (Salpornis salvadori).
xylodromus Clancey, 1975 - Northern and central Zimbabwe (Zambezi Escarpment and Mashonaland Plateau) and adjacent Mozambique (Manica platform south to R Save). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of African Spotted Creeper (Salpornis salvadori).
rajputanae Meinertzhagen, R & Meinertzhagen, A, 1926 - Central and south-eastern Rajasthan (eastern from Sambhar, Ajmer, Aravalli Hills and Mt Abu), in west-central India.
spilonota (Franklin, 1831) - Central India from eastern Gujarat (eastern from Rajpipla and Disa) and southern Haryana (Gurgaon) east to northern Uttar Pradesh (Gonda, near Nepalese border) and northern Bihar, south to eastern Maharashtra, northern Andhra Pradesh and south-eastern Madhya Pradesh (Bastar District).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet