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Green-backed Camaroptera
Camaroptera brachyura · Family Cisticolidae
Camaroptera brachyura
Family Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 196,225
- Countries and territories with records
- 45
About this species
This species has 196,225 occurrence records from 45 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (45.5%), Kenya (13.5%), Uganda (9.5%), Tanzania (6.7%) and Namibia (2.8%); together they account for 77.9% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Camaroptera brachyura combines the genus name Camaroptera with the species epithet brachyura. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Camaroptera; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Camaroptera chloronota, Camaroptera superciliaris and Camaroptera harterti.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 154 species of the family Cisticolidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cisticola juncidis. Its record count is 4 times the family average (48,797). The family Cisticolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.