Grey-backed Camaroptera

Grey-backed Camaroptera

Taxobox
name = Grey-backed Camaroptera
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Cisticolidae
genus = " Camaroptera "
species = "C. brachyura"
binomial = "Camaroptera brachyura"
binomial_authority = (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 ".

References

* 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


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