Blue-naped Mousebird (Urocolius macrourus) [XC172187]
by Peter Boesman from Hargeisa City, Somaliland, Somalia (call)
Blue-naped Mousebird (Urocolius macrourus) [XC810979]
by GABRIEL LEITE from West Kanyada (near Rodi Kopany), Asego, Homa Bay County, Kenya (song)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Red-faced Mousebird (Urocolius indicus). Subspecies syntactus often merged with nominate, and laeneni sometimes included too.
The following 7 subspecies are recognised:
macrourus (Linnaeus, 1766) - Coastal south-western Mauritania and Senegal; recorded also in Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.
syntactus (Oberholser, 1905) - Sahelian and Sudanese zones from Mali, southern Niger and northern Nigeria east to Sudan, Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
laeneni (Niethammer, 1955) - Aí¯r Massif, in north-central Niger.
abyssinicus Schifter, 1975 - Central and southern Ethiopia, and northern Somalia (south to about Beledweyne).
griseogularis van Someren, 1919 - Southern Sudan, eastern Zaire, western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and north-western and (probably this race) south-western Tanzania; this race sometimes said to occur in south-western Ethiopia.
pulcher (Neumann, 1900) - Extreme south-eastern Sudan, eastern Uganda, Kenya, southern Somalia and northern Tanzania.
massaicus Schifter, 1975 - Central and eastern Tanzania (east to near Dar-es-Salaam).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet