White-backed bird-mouse [1] [2] ( lat. Colius colius ) - a species of small birds from the genus of mouse birds ( lat. Colius ). Lives in tropical forests of South Africa . It feeds on fruits and berries.
| White-backed mouse bird |
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| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Squad: | Mouse Birds ( Coliiformes Murie, 1872 ) |
| View: | White-backed mouse bird |
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| International scientific name |
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Colius colius Linnaeus, 1766 |
| Subspecies |
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- Colius colius damarensis (Latham, 1790)
- Colius colius colius (Sharpe, 1892)
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| Security status |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22683788 |
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Appearance
The bird is small in size with a long tail, the total length is 29–32 cm, of which 20–23 cm falls on the tail. The head, neck, wings and tail are gray. The abdomen is creamy white. Paws are red [3] .
Voice
Short and sharp screams [3] .
The breeding season lasts all year. The peak of egg laying occurs in September – December [3] .
It feeds exclusively on plant foods. The basis of the diet is fruits and berries, also the bird eats leaves, buds and flowers and drinks nectar [3] .
The white-backed mouse bird is widespread in South Africa . It lives in shrubbery. Leads mainly a sedentary lifestyle.
Nominal subspecies - C. c. colius , lives in the vast territory of South Africa , and the subspecies C. c. damarensis - in Namibia and southern Botswana [3] .
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 172. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Galushin V.M., Drozdov N.N., Ilyichev V.D., Konstantinov V.M., Kurochkin E.N., Polov S.A., Potapov R.L., Flint V.E., Fomin V. E. Fauna of the world. Birds. Directory. - Moscow: Agropromizdat, 1991 .-- 311 p. - ISBN 5-10-001229-3 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 de Juana E., Kirwan GM White-backed Mousebird ( Colius colius ) . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions (2012).
