Red-faced Mousebird (Urocolius indicus)

Other Names (World)
Red-faced Mousebird, Red-faced Coly

Family
Coliidae (Mousebirds)

Size
34 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Latham, 1790)

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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 'tsee-tee-tee'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (48)...)

Red-faced Mousebird (Urocolius indicus) [XC745363]
by Donyo from Bankfontein campsite, Luckhof, Free State, South Africa (call)

Red-faced Mousebird (Urocolius indicus) [XC590849]
by Lynette Rudman from City of Matlosana, Southern DC, North West, South Africa (flight call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Blue-naped Mousebird (Urocolius macrourus). Western Angolan population has been separated as subspecies angolensis, but now usually regarded as indistinguishable from lacteifrons. Birds from south-eastern Zaire sometimes assigned subspecies lualabae and those of northern Botswana subspecies ngamiensis, but both probably better included within mossambicus.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

lacteifrons (Sharpe, 1892) - Coastal Angola (southern from Cabinda) and most of Namibia.
mossambicus (Reichenow, 1896) - Extreme south-eastern Zaire and south-western Tanzania (around L Rukwa) south to south-eastern Angola (northern possibly to eastern Moxico), Zambia and Malawi.
pallidus (Reichenow, 1896) - Coastal areas of extreme south-eastern Tanzania and northern Mozambique.
transvaalensis Roberts, 1922 - South-western Zambia, Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique south to South Africa (except south).
indicus (Latham, 1790) - Southern Cape Province east to R Great Kei.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-faced Mousebird (Urocolius indicus) - 10 files

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