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 LC    White-backed Mousebird* Id (Atlas):
    Colius colius

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
White-backed Mousebird, White-backed Coly

Family
Coliidae (Mousebirds)

Size
34 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Namibia, South Africa.

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Unknown to Angola.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Fruits, berries, leaves, seeds, nectar.

Voice
A whistled 'zwee-wewit'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

 
White-backed Mousebird (Colius colius) [XC43387]
     by Sander Bot from Augrabies Falls National Park, Northern Cape, South Africa (song)

 
White-backed Mousebird (Colius colius) [XC645834]
     by id from Kopanong Local Municipality (near Groot-Suurfontein), Xhariep, Free State, South Africa (flight call, song)

Subspecies
Subspecies intergrade, and are often merged.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • damarensis Reichenow, 1899   -  Namibia and parts of southern Botswana south to north-western Cape Province and western Transvaal.
  • colius (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Cape Province and western Orange Free State east to western Lesotho.



References
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Files:
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