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 LC    Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit* Id (Atlas):
    Anthoscopus musculus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Mouse-coloured Penduline-Tit, Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit, Mouse-colored Tit, Mouse-coloured Tit, Mouse-colored Penduline Tit

Family
Remizidae (Penduline-tits)

Size
8 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1882)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

South-eastern Sudan (eastern from Lado and Tombe), Ethiopia, north-west, northern and southern Somalia, north-eastern Uganda, Kenya and extreme north-eastern Tanzania.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

 
Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus) [XC299946]
     by Hans Matheve from Awash National Park, Ethiopia (song)

 
Mouse-colored Penduline Tit (Anthoscopus musculus) [XC277088]
     by Andrew Spencer from Bilen Lodge, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Sennar Penduline-Tit (Anthoscopus punctifrons), Yellow Penduline-Tit (Anthoscopus parvulus), Grey Penduline-Tit (Anthoscopus caroli) and Cape Penduline-Tit (Anthoscopus minutus).

Birds from Kenya have been separated as a geographical subspecies guasso on the basis of rather greyer plumage compared with birds from farther north, but age-related feather wear could be responsible for such apparent differences.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit (Anthoscopus musculus) - 10 files


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