Listen to the Grey-backed camaroptera
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About the Grey-backed camaroptera
The Grey-backed camaroptera is a bird in the family Cisticolidae (order Passeriformes).
What does the Grey-backed camaroptera sound like?
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
From Wikipedia
The grey-backed camaroptera (Camaroptera brevicaudata) is a small bird in the family Cisticolidae. This bird is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Recent studies suggest this species and the green-backed camaroptera may be the same species.
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.
Related birds in the genus Camaroptera
More from the family Cisticolidae
Zitting cisticola
Cisticola juncidis
Common tailorbird
Orthotomus sutorius
Ashy prinia
Prinia socialis
Red-faced cisticola
Cisticola erythrops
Jungle prinia
Prinia sylvatica
Wailing cisticola
Cisticola lais
Grey-capped warbler
Eminia lepida
Rufous-fronted prinia
Prinia buchanani
Ashy cisticola
Cisticola cinereolus
Neddicky
Cisticola fulvicapilla
Long-billed forest warbler
Artisornis moreaui
Frequently asked questions
What does a Grey-backed camaroptera sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the Grey-backed camaroptera on this page. Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
What family does the Grey-backed camaroptera belong to?
The Grey-backed camaroptera (Camaroptera brevicaudata) belongs to the family Cisticolidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Grey-backed Camaroptera (Camaroptera brevicaudata) (022A-WA03044X0015-0004M0) – CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Camaroptera brevicaudata, sang, Waterberg Natuurpraal, a by JMK – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q2934644 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Grey-backed camaroptera – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa – CC BY 2.0