Green Crombec - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Scottishdude
The Gambia, March, 2010

Sylvietta virens

Identification

8·5–9 cm

• Dark tawny-brown head
• Slender bill

Distribution

Africa: Senegal to southern Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and northern Angola.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 4 subspecies^[1]:

• S. v. flaviventris:

• Senegambia to south-western Nigeria

• S. v. virens:

• South-eastern Nigeria to Cameroon, Gabon and central Zaire

• S. v. tando:

• Congo to southern Zaire and north-western Angola

• S. v. baraka:

• Eastern Zaire to Kenya

S. v. flaviventris is sometimes split as Yellow-bellied Crombec^[2].

An addition subspecies S. v. meridionalis is usually considered invalid^[2].

Habitat

Forest, forest edge, secondary growth and thickets in woodland.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists mostly of insects, ants, beetles, flies etc.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved October 2014)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Green Crombec. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Green_Crombec

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