Bleating Camaroptera
Camaroptera brachyura
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- Genus
- Camaroptera
- eBird Code
- grbcam1
Vocalizations
Subspecies (16)
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Camaroptera brachyura abessinica
South Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, northern Somalia, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, and northern Kenya
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Camaroptera brachyura aschani
highlands of Kenya to far southwestern Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kivu)
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Camaroptera brachyura beirensis
Mozambique (north of Save River) to eastern Zimbabwe and northeastern KwaZulu-Natal
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Camaroptera brachyura bororensis
southern Tanzania to southern Malawi and northern Mozambique
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Camaroptera brachyura brachyura
coastal eastern and southern South Africa (central KwaZulu-Natal to eastern Western Cape)
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Camaroptera brachyura brevicaudata
Senegal and Sierra Leone to central Sudan and lowlands of Ethiopia
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Camaroptera brachyura constans
southeastern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique, Eswatini, and northeastern South Africa
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Camaroptera brachyura erlangeri
southern Somalia to coastal Kenya and northeastern Tanzania
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Camaroptera brachyura fugglescouchmani
eastern Tanzania to Zambia and Malawi
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Camaroptera brachyura griseigula
western Kenya to eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania
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Camaroptera brachyura insulata
Ethiopia (Ghere region and Kaffa Province)
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Camaroptera brachyura intercalata
eastern Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Katanga), eastern Zambia, and western Tanzania
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Camaroptera brachyura pileata
southern Kenya to southeastern Tanzania; Mafia Island and Zanzibar
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Camaroptera brachyura sharpei
southern Angola to Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, southern Zambia, Malawi, and northern South Africa (North West)
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Camaroptera brachyura tincta
Liberia to western Kenya, northwestern Angola, northwestern Zambia, and western Tanzania
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Camaroptera brachyura transitiva
southeastern Botswana to Zimbabwe
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.