| Grey-backed Camaroptera | |
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| In Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Camaroptera |
| Species: | C. brachyura |
| Binomial name | |
| Camaroptera brachyura (Vieillot, 1820) |
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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 .