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Alternative name: Cricket Longtail

Photo by UlfL
near Niamey, Niger, Africa, September 2007
Spiloptila clamans

Identification

Distribution

Africa
Northern Africa: occurs only in Morocco
Western Africa: Mauritania, Senegambia, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Niger and Chad
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Dry shrubland and dry savanna.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
  2. Avibase
  3. Wikipedia

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