Cisticolas and Allies (Cisticolidae)
Grey Wren-warbler (Calamonastes simplex) - HBW 11, p. 485
French: Camaroptère modeste
German: Somalibindensänger
Spanish: Camaróptera Sencilla
Other common names: Zambia Wren-warbler; Western Wren-warbler (cinereus)
Taxonomy: Thamnobia simplex Cabanis, 1878, Ndi, Taita District, Kenya.
Forms a superspecies with C. undosus, C. stierlingi and C. fasciolatus. Sometimes considered conspecific with first two of those, but no intergradation where their ranges meet. Monotypic.
Distribution: SE Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, N and S Somalia, Kenya, E Uganda and N Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a bush, alert. Locality Negele Boran, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 December 2005 6 years ago 32 sec 4.4 -
A bird in a bush and moving away. Locality Negele Boran, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 December 2005 6 years ago 37 sec 4.4 -
calling from top of acacia Locality Filtu, Genale Valley, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 31 October 2010 2 years ago 32 sec 4 -
A bird in a bush and flying away Locality Ginir, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 4 December 2005 7 years ago 5 sec 2.8
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Perched on top of a bush.
Locality Lake Baringo, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Nick Athanas 4 September 2012 20 weeks ago 3.9 -
A partly hidden adult foraging in scrub.
Locality Filtu, Genale Valley, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 28 January 2009 14 weeks ago 3.5 -
Perched in an acacia.
Locality Dawa River, SNNPR Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Ken Havard 6 November 2011 51 weeks ago 2.5 -
A rather poxey-looking individual of Gray Wren-warbler moulting its rectrices.
Locality Dubluk, Ethiopia
Christian Boix Hinzen 16 November 2009 3 years ago 2.5
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A bird calling a single note. Locality Filtu, Genale Valley, Ethiopia
(Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 31 October 2010 17 weeks ago 4
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