Hartert's Camaroptera
Camaroptera harterti
A small, chunky, wren-like understory warbler that often leans forward and cocks its short tail. This species has brown eyes, olive-green wings and tail, and white underparts. Found in evergreen forest understory, plantation, and thickets along the Angolan escarpment. Usually in pairs, hopping about, often low to the ground, searching for small insects. The two common vocalizations are a nasal “meehrrp” alarm call and a strident repeated snapping “strik-strik-strik-strik-strik” song. Very similar to Green-backed Camaroptera, but tail is brighter green, rather than gray or gray-green, and underparts are cleaner white, rather than grayish, especially on the breast.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Camaroptera harterti
- Authority
- Zedlitz, 1911
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- Genus
- Camaroptera
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- unknown
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Distribution
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