Green-backed Eremomela (Eremomela canescens)

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

Green-backed Eremomela (Eremomela canescens) [XC306013]
by Hans Matheve from Simbo Beach Resort, Lake Langano, Oromia, Ethiopia (song?)

Green-backed Eremomela (Eremomela canescens) [XC209994]
by id from Simbo Resort, Lake Langano, Ethiopia (call, song)

Subspecies
Senegal Eremomela (Eremomela pusilla) and Green-backed Eremomela (Eremomela canescens) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Eremomela pusilla following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Forms a superspecies with Senegal Eremomela (Eremomela pusilla), Green-capped Eremomela (Eremomela scotops) and Karoo Eremomela (Eremomela gregalis). Has been treated as conspecific with Senegal Eremomela (Eremomela pusilla), with which it hybridizes along Cameroon-Central African Republic border.

Proposed subspecies elgonensis (from western Kenya and adjacent Uganda) evidently an intergrade between elegans and nominate, and synonymized with latter.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

canescens Antinori, 1864 - Southern Chad, eastern Cameroon, Central African Republic, southern Sudan, extreme northern and north-eastern DRCongo, northern and eastern Uganda and western Kenya.
elegans Heuglin, 1864 - Western and central Sudan (Darfur and Kordofan east to Sennar).
abyssinica Bannerman, 1911 - Eastern Sudan (Kassala to R Sobat), northern Eritrea, western Ethiopia (south to R Omo).
elgonensis van Someren, 1920 - Western Kenya (Mt. Elgon to southern Nandi Hills).

References
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Files:

JPG files for Green-backed Eremomela (Eremomela canescens) - 10 files

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