Blue-naped Mousebird

Taxonomy

Order

Coliiformes

Family

Coliidae

Genus

Urocolius

eBird Code

blnmou1

Subspecies (6)

• Urocolius macrourus abyssinicus

  central and southern Ethiopia to northwestern Somalia

• Urocolius macrourus griseogularis

  eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda to Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, and northwestern Tanzania

• Urocolius macrourus laeneni

  Aïr region of Niger

• Urocolius macrourus macrourus

  Mauritania and Senegambia eastward to eastern Ethiopia

• Urocolius macrourus massaicus

  central to coastal Tanzania

• Urocolius macrourus pulcher

  far southeastern South Sudan, southern Ethiopia, and southern Somalia to eastern Uganda, Kenya, and northern Tanzania