Yellow-vented Eremomela
Eremomela flavicrissalis
A small, drab warbler-like bird of dry country. The upperparts are gray and the underparts pale, with a small amount of yellow on the vent. Found locally in dry thorn savanna and thornscrub, generally in drier habitat than Yellow-bellied Eremomela. Can be very similar to that species, but slightly smaller and slimmer-billed, with less yellow on the underparts. Also similar to Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit, but has a slightly longer and thicker bill, and yellow on the underparts.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Eremomela flavicrissalis
- Authority
- Sharpe, 1895
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- Genus
- Eremomela
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- declining
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Distribution
Bird Calls
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