Green Crombec (Sylvietta virens)

Other Names (World)
Green Crombec, Green Sylvetta, Yellow-bellied Crombec (flaviventris)

Family
Macrosphenidae (Crombecs And Allies)

Size
9 cm

First Described (Guide)
Cassin, 1859

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

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 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (82)...)

Green Crombec (Sylvietta virens) [XC336786]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Libassa Ecolodge, Margibi, Liberia (song)

Green Crombec (Sylvietta virens) [XC285483]
by Bram Piot from Sempaya, Semuliki National Park, Bundibugyo, Western Region, Uganda (song)

Subspecies
Subspecies flaviventris sometimes thought to represent a separate species, but intergrades with nominate in Nigeria (around lower R Niger).

Proposed subspecies meridionalis (from north-western Angola) synonymized with tando.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

flaviventris (Sharpe, 1877) - Gambia, southern Senegal, southern Mali, and southern Guinea south to Liberia and east to south-western Nigeria.
virens Cassin, 1859 - South-eastern Nigeria east to south-western Central African Republic, south to Gabon and middle R Congo.
baraka Sharpe, 1897 - DRCongo (east of middle R Congo) east to southern Sudan (Bengangai Forest, Imatongs), western and southern Uganda and western Kenya (Busia District), south to extreme north-eastern Angola, Rwanda, Burundi and extreme north-western Tanzania (Bukoba).
tando Sclater, WL, 1927 - Southern PRCongo and lower R Congo south to north-western Angola (Cabinda, and Uige south to Luanda, Malanje and northern Cuanza Sul).

References
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Files:

JPG files for Green Crombec (Sylvietta virens) - 10 files

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