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 LC    Grey Longbill* Id (Atlas):
    Macrosphenus concolor

Description (7)
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Other Names (World)
Grey Longbill, Gray Longbill, Olive Longbill, Olive Bush-creeper

Family
Macrosphenidae (Crombecs And Allies)

Size
11.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1857)

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], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Sierra Leone, southern Guinea and Liberia east to southern Ghana, and from southern Nigeria and southern Cameroon south, incuding Bioko I (Fernando Póo), to PRCongo and east to south-western Central African Republic, DRCongo (except south-east), western and southern Uganda and extreme north-eastern Angola.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (62)...)

 
Grey Longbill (Macrosphenus concolor) [XC744289]
     by Andr\u00e1s Schmidt from New Debiso, Bia, Western Region, Ghana (song)

 
Grey Longbill (Macrosphenus concolor) [XC265161]
     by Martin St-Michel from Parc National de la For\u00eat du Banco, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Along with Yellow Longbill (Macrosphenus flavicans) and Kemp's Longbill (Macrosphenus kempi) have in the past been considered to be babblers (Timaliidae). Forms a superspecies with Pulitzer's Longbill (Macrosphenus pulitzeri). Eastern populations (DRCongo and Uganda) described as a geographical subspecies, grisescens, but considered not diagnosable.


References
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Files:
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