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 9 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
