Green Hylia - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Scottishdude
The Gambia, March 2010

Hylia prasina

Identification

12 cm

• Dark olive-green upperparts
• Long, pale yellow supercilium

Distribution

Africa
Western Africa: Mauritania, Senegambia, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania
African Islands: Gulf of Guinea Islands, Bioko (Fernando Po)

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• H. p. prasina:

• Senegambia east to southern South Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania, south to central Angola and central Democratic Republic of the Congo

• H. p. poensis:

• Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)

Habitat

Lowland and montane forests.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of insects, ants, grasshoppers, beetles and butterflies, etc.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved October 2014)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Green Hylia. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 14 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Green_Hylia

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