Mousebirds (Coliidae)
Blue-naped Mousebird (Urocolius macrourus) - HBW 6, p. 76
French: Coliou huppé
German: Blaunacken-Mausvogel
Spanish: Pájaro-ratón Nuquiazul
Other common names: Blue-naped Coly
Taxonomy: Lanius macrourus Linnaeus, 1766, Senegal.
Genus often merged into Colius. Forms a superspecies with U. indicus. Race syntactus often merged with nominate, and laeneni sometimes included too. Seven subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- macrourus (Linnaeus, 1766) - coastal SW Mauritania and Senegal; recorded also in Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.
- syntactus (Oberholser, 1905) - Sahelian and Sudanese zones from Mali, S Niger and N Nigeria E to Sudan, Eritrea and N Ethiopia.
- laeneni (Niethammer, 1955) - Aïr Massif, in NC Niger.
- macrourus (Linnaeus, 1766) - coastal SW Mauritania and Senegal; recorded also in Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.
- syntactus (Oberholser, 1905) - Sahelian and Sudanese zones from Mali, S Niger and N Nigeria E to Sudan, Eritrea and N Ethiopia.
- laeneni (Niethammer, 1955) - Aïr Massif, in NC Niger.
- abyssinicus Schifter, 1975 - C & S Ethiopia, and N Somalia (S to about Beledweyne).
- griseogularis van Someren, 1919 - S Sudan, E Zaire, W Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and NW & (probably this race) SW Tanzania; this race sometimes said to occur in SW Ethiopia.
- pulcher (Neumann, 1900) - extreme SE Sudan, E Uganda, Kenya, S Somalia and N Tanzania.
- massaicus Schifter, 1975 - C & E Tanzania (E to near Dar-es-Salaam).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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1 bird shows its blue nap very well, on a thorny bush Locality Bandia Reserve, Thiès Region, Senegal
Juan Sanabria 8 January 2008 3 years ago 20 sec 3.8 -
A bird in a thorny bush, eating fruits Locality Bandia Reserve, Thiès Region, Senegal
Juan Sanabria 1 January 2008 1 year ago 39 sec 3.7 -
A bird on the top of a tree Locality Mweya Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp griseogularis)
Josep del Hoyo 4 September 2006 5 years ago 34 sec 3.6 -
A bird in a tree, eating fruits Locality Arba Minch, Ethiopia (ssp abyssinicus)
Josep del Hoyo 16 December 2005 5 years ago 39 sec 3.6 -
A bird resting in a tree Locality Ginir, Ethiopia (ssp abyssinicus)
Josep del Hoyo 4 December 2005 6 years ago 44 sec 3.6 -
Three adults and then a juvenile feeding at a feeder. Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 3 years ago 35 sec 3.3
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a bird in a bush
Locality Arusha Town, Arusha Region, Tanzania
M P Goodey 1 February 2006 43 weeks ago 4 -
A bird in a bush.
Locality Samburu-Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya (ssp pulcher)
Jean Hupperetz 30 November 2008 3 years ago 3.8 -
Blue-naped Mousebird (Urocolius macrourus)
Locality Awash National Park, Ethiopia
Guy Poisson 15 February 2010 1 year ago 2.2
- No sound recordings available yet
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