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Green-backed Camaroptera
Photo by louisdup
Port Elizabeth, South Africa

C. b. brevicaudata, Grey-backed Camaroptera
Photo by Westmidstraveller
Masai Mara, Kenya, October 2009

Alternative name: Bleating Warbler

Camaroptera brachyura

Includes Hartert's Camaroptera, Grey-backed Camaroptera

[edit] Identification

Length 10-11 cm. A small, active, noisy warbler with olive-green wings and olive-green or grey mantle, back and tail. The head is grey and the under parts are white.

[edit] Distribution

Most of sub-Saharan Africa.

[edit] Taxonomy

A varied species; Clements^[1] recognises 17 subspecies.
These subspecies are sometimes split up in three species:

• C. harteri - Hartert's Camaroptera in Gabon and NW Angola (monotypic)
• C. brevicaudata - Grey-backed Camaroptera from Senegal to Ethiopia (monotypic)
• C. brachyura - Green-backed Camaroptera with all remaining subspecies in the rest of its distribution.

The name Grey-backed Camaroptera is used for the pre-split species too.

[edit] Habitat

Dense thicket and forest understorey.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Vocalisation

Calls include a loud, snapping bidup-bidup-bidup and a nasal, "bleating" neeehh.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

• List of references

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