Green-backed camaroptera
| Green-backed camaroptera | |
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Foraging in leaf litter Song recorded in Cape Province, South Africa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Camaroptera |
| Species: | C. brachyura |
| Binomial name | |
| Camaroptera brachyura (Vieillot, 1820) | |
The green-backed camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura) is a small bird in the Cisticolidae family. This bird is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Recent studies suggest this species and the grey-backed camaroptera may be the same species.
This skulking passerine is typically found low in dense cover. The green-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 green upperparts. The wings are olive and the underparts whitish grey. The sexes are similar, but juveniles are paler yellow on the breast.
Like most members in the group, green-backed camaroptera is insectivorous.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Camaroptera brachyura". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- Green-backed camaroptera - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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