juvenile Green-backed Camaroptera QENP Uganda July 22 (1 Viewer)

[49bentley]

Can someone please confirm this to be a juvenile Green-backed Camaroptera? Taken near Simba Safari Camp QENP Uganda July

 

[49bentley]

Any suggestions?

 

[THE_FERN]

well it's plausibly one (grey-backed camaroptera in this case)

 

[MacNara]

Can someone please confirm this to be a juvenile Green-backed Camaroptera? Taken near Simba Safari Camp QENP Uganda July

I was going to ask, 'Why do you think it's Green-backed, not Grey-backed?'

Because: according to 'Birds of East Africa', 'Green-backed birds occur in southeast Kenya, south to eastern and southern Tanzania'; and Green-backed is generally treated as a subspecies of Grey-backed by most books and most of us.

But then I looked it up on Cornell's 'Birds of the World' (online only). To my great surprise, this gives the species as Green-backed Camaroptera, with Grey as a sub-species or alternative name (but a search on Grey-backed Camaroptera produces no results). !!! See attachments.

Maybe this is why Bentley asked the question this way.

Anyway if it is a Camaroptera, it will be in the grey group in that location.

 

[THE_FERN]

I was going to ask, 'Why do you think it's Green-backed, not Grey-backed?'

Because: according to 'Birds of East Africa', 'Green-backed birds occur in southeast Kenya, south to eastern and southern Tanzania'; and Green-backed is generally treated as a subspecies of Grey-backed by most books and most of us.

But then I looked it up on Cornell's 'Birds of the World' (online only). To my great surprise, this gives the species as Green-backed Camaroptera, with Grey as a sub-species or alternative name (but a search on Grey-backed Camaroptera produces no results). !!! See attachments.

Maybe this is why Bentley asked the question this way.

Anyway if it is a Camaroptera, it will be in the grey group in that location.

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Yes inconsistent across taxonomies. If they are the same thing then calling them grey-backed makes sense because of the larger range for that form

 

[49bentley]

Thanks to both The Fern and MacNara.

 

[Andy Adcock]

I was going to ask, 'Why do you think it's Green-backed, not Grey-backed?'

Because: according to 'Birds of East Africa', 'Green-backed birds occur in southeast Kenya, south to eastern and southern Tanzania'; and Green-backed is generally treated as a subspecies of Grey-backed by most books and most of us.

But then I looked it up on Cornell's 'Birds of the World' (online only). To my great surprise, this gives the species as Green-backed Camaroptera, with Grey as a sub-species or alternative name (but a search on Grey-backed Camaroptera produces no results). !!! See attachments.

Maybe this is why Bentley asked the question this way.

Anyway if it is a Camaroptera, it will be in the grey group in that location.

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Really, never has been by me and the IOC have had it split for as long as I remember?