Grey-backed Cameroptera
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| Camaroptera brachyurus (Vieillot, 1818) |
The Grey-backed Camaroptera, Camaroptera brachyurus, 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, the Grey-backed Camaroptera is insectivorous. The call is a whining sheee……sheee, and the song is a crisp twik twik twik twik twik .
Reference
- Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1