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 LC    Blue-naped Mousebird* Id (Atlas):
    Urocolius macrourus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Blue-naped Mousebird, Blue-naped Coly

Family
Coliidae (Mousebirds)

Size
35 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,100 m.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Vagrant to Gambia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (42)...)

 
Blue-naped Mousebird (Urocolius macrourus) [XC48821]
     by selvino from American Campsite, Langano, Ethiopia (call, song)

 
Blue-naped Mousebird (Urocolius macrourus) [XC577159]
     by isaac kilusu from Mandegee farm, oloitoktok, Kenya (whistle)

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).



References
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Files:
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