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'''Alternative name: Bleating Warbler''' | '''Alternative name: Bleating Warbler''' | ||
| + | [[Image:GreenbackedCamaroptera.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Green-backed Camaroptera<br />Photo by {{user|louisdup|louisdup}} <br />Port Elizabeth, [[South Africa]], October 2005]] | ||
;[[:Category:Camaroptera|Camaroptera]] brachyura | ;[[:Category:Camaroptera|Camaroptera]] brachyura | ||
'''Includes Hartert's Camaroptera, Grey-backed Camaroptera''' | '''Includes Hartert's Camaroptera, Grey-backed Camaroptera''' | ||
==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| − | Length 10-11 cm | + | Length 10-11 cm<br /> |
| + | A small, active, noisy warbler with olive-green wings and olive-green or grey mantle, back and tail. The head is grey and the under parts are white. | ||
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
| + | [[Image:Grey-backed Camaroptera2.jpg|thumb|450px|right|''C. b. brevicaudata'', Grey-backed Camaroptera<br />Photo by {{user|Westmidstraveller|Westmidstraveller}}<br />Masai Mara, [[Kenya]], October 2009]] | ||
Most of sub-Saharan [[Africa]]. | Most of sub-Saharan [[Africa]]. | ||
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| − | 17 subspecies recognized in three groups (sometimes accepted as full species) | + | ====Subspecies==== |
| + | 17 subspecies recognized in three groups (sometimes accepted as full species)<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup> | ||
* '''Green-backed Camaroptera''': | * '''Green-backed Camaroptera''': | ||
*:''C. b. brachyura'' in coastal eastern and southern [[South Africa]] | *:''C. b. brachyura'' in coastal eastern and southern [[South Africa]] | ||
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Dense thicket and forest understorey. | Dense thicket and forest understorey. | ||
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
| + | ====Diet==== | ||
| + | Their diet consists almost entirely of insects, including spiders, ants, beetles, flies and also caterpillars. | ||
====Vocalisation==== | ====Vocalisation==== | ||
Calls include a loud, snapping ''bidup-bidup-bidup'' and a nasal, "bleating" ''neeehh''. | Calls include a loud, snapping ''bidup-bidup-bidup'' and a nasal, "bleating" ''neeehh''. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
| − | #{{Ref- | + | #{{Ref-Clements6thAug14}}#{{Ref-SinclairRyan03}}#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014) |
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Camaroptera+brachyura}} | {{GSearch|Camaroptera+brachyura}} | ||
[[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Camaroptera]] | [[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Camaroptera]] | ||
Revision as of 23:50, 22 November 2014
Alternative name: Bleating Warbler
- Camaroptera brachyura
Includes Hartert's Camaroptera, Grey-backed Camaroptera
Identification
Length 10-11 cm
A small, active, noisy warbler with olive-green wings and olive-green or grey mantle, back and tail. The head is grey and the under parts are white.
Distribution
C. b. brevicaudata, Grey-backed Camaroptera
Photo by Westmidstraveller
Masai Mara, Kenya, October 2009
Photo by Westmidstraveller
Masai Mara, Kenya, October 2009
Most of sub-Saharan Africa.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
17 subspecies recognized in three groups (sometimes accepted as full species)[1]
- Green-backed Camaroptera:
- C. b. brachyura in coastal eastern and southern South Africa
- C. b. constans in southeast Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland
- C. b. bororensis in southwest Tanzania, northern Mozambique and southern Malawi
- C. b. fugglescouchmani in northeast Zambia, northern Malawi and eastern Tanzania
- C. b. pileata in southeast Kenya and coastal Tanzania, also on Zanzibar and Mafia Island
- Hartert's Camaroptera:
- C. b. harterti in the escarpment forests of west-central Angola
- Grey-backed Camaroptera:
- C. b. brevicaudata from Senegal east to Sudan and northwest Ethiopia
- C. b. tincta from Liberia east to western Kenya and south to northwest Angola
- C. b. abessinica in southern Sudan, northeast DRC, Ethiopia, Djibouti, northwest Somalia, northern Uganda and northern Kenya
- C. b. insulata in south-central Ethiopia
- C. b. aschani in eastern DRC, southwest Uganda and the Kenyan Highlands
- C. b. erlangeri in southern Somalia, eastern Kenya and northeastern Tanzania
- C. b. griseigula in southeast Uganda, western Kenya and northern Tanzania
- C. b. intercalata in Angola, southern DRC, northern Zambia and western Tanzania
- C. b. sharpei in southern Angola, northern Namibia, Botswana, southern Zambia, western Malawi and northern South Africa
- C. b. transitiva in Zimbabwe, southeast Botswana and northeast South Africa
- C. b. beirensis in Mozambique, adjacent Zimbabwe and South Africa (northeast KwaZulu-Natal)
Habitat
Dense thicket and forest understorey.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists almost entirely of insects, including spiders, ants, beetles, flies and also caterpillars.
Vocalisation
Calls include a loud, snapping bidup-bidup-bidup and a nasal, "bleating" neeehh.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Green-backed Camaroptera. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Green-backed_Camaroptera
