Grey-backed Camaroptera

Camaroptera brachyura

Other Names

Camaroptera brevicaudata   Grey-backed Bleating Warbler, Green-backed Bleating Warbler, Bleating Bush-Warbler   Camaroptère à tête grise, Camaroptère à dos vert, Camaroptère à dos gris, Fauvette crombec   Meckergrasmücke     Gråryggad camaroptera   Grijsrug camaroptera   Bigia belante

World: Found in the lowlands of e,s Africa, from eastern South Africa N through Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi to Tanzania and se Kenya.

Kenya: Widely distributed everywhere except the arid eastern regions.

This is a shy but noisy warbler which inhabits dense vegetation and forest undergrowth, typically in deciduous and evergreen forest. It makes its pocket-shaped nest from 2 large leaves which it pierces at the edges and then sews together using bark fibre and cobwebs.