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 NR    Grey-backed Camaroptera* Id (Atlas):
    Camaroptera brevicaudata

Description (10)
Image of Grey-backed Camaroptera
 

Other Names (World)
Grey-backed Camaroptera, Gray-backed Camaroptera

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
11 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cretzschmar, 1830)

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote dIvoire, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau (B), Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Savannas from Senegal east to Sudan and north-western Ethiopia.
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Status NR
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Call is a whining 'sheee......sheee'. Song is a crisp 'twik twik twik twik twik'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)...)

 
Grey-backed Camaroptera (Camaroptera brevicaudata) [XC697676]
     by Hans Matheve from Mandegee farm, oloitoktok, Kenya (call)

 
Grey-backed Camaroptera (Camaroptera brevicaudata) [XC699557]
     by Hans Matheve from Gwabi River Lodge, Chirundu, Southern Province, Zambia (song)

Nest
Composed of grass by binding large leaves together, located low in a bush.

Subspecies
Grey-backed Camaroptera (Camaroptera brevicaudata), Hartert's Camaroptera (Camaroptera harterti) and Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Camaroptera brachyura following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).

The following 11 subspecies are recognised:

  • brevicaudata (Cretzschmar, 1830)   -  Widespread. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • tincta (Cassin, 1855)   -  Forest and woodland from Liberia east to western Kenya, south to north-western Angola. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • abessinica Zedlitz, 1911   -  Southern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo, Ethiopia, Djibouti, north-western Somalia, northern Uganda and northern Kenya. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • insulata Desfayes, 1975   -  Forested areas of south-central Ethiopia. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • aschani Granvik, 1934   -  Eastern DRCongo (Kivu), south-western Uganda and Kenyan Highlands. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • erlangeri Reichenow, 1905   -  Southern Somalia, eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • griseigula Sharpe, 1892   -  South-eastern Uganda, western Kenya and northern Tanzania. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • intercalata White, CMN, 1960   -  Northern and north-eastern Angola, southern DRCongo, northern Zambia and western Tanzania. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • sharpei Zedlitz, 1911   -  Southern Angola, northern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, southern Zambia, arid parts of western Malawi and northern South Africa (North West Province). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • transitiva Clancey, 1974   -  Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana and north-eastern South Africa. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).
  • beirensis Roberts, 1932   -  Mozambique north of R Save, adjacent Zimbabwe, and south to north-eastern South Africa (north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bleating Camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).



References
See References.


Files:
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