Grey-backed Camaroptera
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| Camaroptera brachyura (Vieillot, 1820) |
The Grey-backed Camaroptera, Camaroptera brachyura, is a small warbler. This bird is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
This skulking passerine is typically found low in dense cover. The Grey-backed Camaroptera binds large leaves together low in a bush and builds a grass nest within the leaves. The normal clutch is two or three eggs.
These 11.5 cm long warblers have grey upperparts and a grey short cocked tail. The wings are olive and the underparts whitish grey. The sexes are similar, but juveniles are paler yellow on the breast.
Like most warblers, Grey-backed Camaroptera is insectivorous. The call is a whining sheee……sheee, and the song is a crisp twik twik twik twik twik .
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Camaroptera brachyura. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 09 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1
