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Species of bird From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The olive-green camaroptera (Camaroptera chloronota) is a bird species in the family Cisticolidae.
Olive-green camaroptera | |
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In the Nsuta Forest, Ghana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cisticolidae |
Genus: | Camaroptera |
Species: | C. chloronota |
Binomial name | |
Camaroptera chloronota Reichenow, 1895 | |
The olive-green camaroptera was described by the German ornithologist Anton Reichenow in 1895 under its current binomial name Camaroptera chloronota. The type locality is the forest of Missahohe in the West African state of Togo.[2][3] The specific epithet chloronota is from the Ancient Greek khlōros meaning "green" and -nōtos meaning "-backed".[4]
There are five subspecies:[5]
It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
It tends to fly in flocks of 50–100, so far it avoids intercontinental migration.
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