Grey Greenbul - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Tib78
Kibale, Uganda, December 2014

Eurillas gracilis

Alternative name: Little Grey Greenbul

Identification

16 cm

• Crown and neck olive-grey
• Short tail

Distribution

Africa
Western Africa: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Kenya, Uganda

Taxonomy

Formerly placed in the genus Andropadus.

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• E. g. extremus:

• Sierra Leone to south-western Nigeria

• E. g. gracilis:

• South-eastern Nigeria to southern Cameroon, Gabon, north-western Angola and central Zaire

• E. g. ugandae:

• Eastern Zaire to Uganda and western Kenya

Habitat

A variety of forest types primary, secondary, deciduous, evergreen, swamp and gallery woodland.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of seeds, fruit and insects, including arthropods, beetles, moths, ants and caterpillars.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2011. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.9). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved March 2015)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Grey Greenbul. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Grey_Greenbul

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