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Alternative names: Kemp's Bush-creeper; Kemp's Warbler

Macrosphenus kempi

Identification

13 cm. A short-tailed, brown warbler with a long, straight bill.

  • Dark olive-brown top and side of head, upperparts and upperwing-coverts, loose erectile feathers of back and rump greyer
  • Dark brown flight-feathers and tail
  • Greyish white chin and throat
  • Olive-grey underparts, whiter on centre of belly and with orange-chestnut flanks
  • Long, straight bill, slightly hooked at tip
  • flammeus more richly coloured below with extensive rufous-cinnamon on breast, flanks and belly side

Sexes similar.

Distribution

West Africa from Sierra Leone east to Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and western Cameroon.
Uncommon in much of its range.

Taxonomy

Two subspecies recognized:

Forms a superspecies with Yellow Longbill and is sometimes considerd conspecific with it.

Habitat

Found in undergrowth and thickets in depleted primary forest, secondary forest and forest edges.
Occurs mainly in lowlands but also in montane forest at 1250 to 1500 m on Mount Nimba (Liberia).

Behaviour

Diet

Feeds on insects like ants and beetles.
Usually seen in pairs, foraging in thick low cover, stretching its neck to search small branches.

Breeding

Few information. Fledglings seen in February and March in Liberia. Probably breeds throughout year.

Movements

This is a sedentary species.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2016)

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