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WoodlandCup nestTiny · 10 g
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The black-necked eremomela is a small bird, being on average 11 cm long and weighing 10 g. It has a white breast with a grey back and olive wings. It has a black mask around its eye with a yellow-orange crown above and a bright yellow throat below, and a distinctive thin black collar. Its call is a "dzrrt dzrrt" repeated for five seconds at a time.
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When to see the Black-necked Eremomela
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-necked Eremomela
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Tanzania.
About the Black-necked Eremomela
The black-necked eremomela is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.
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Easily confused with
Green-backed EremomelaEremomela canescensThe green-backed eremomela is a member of the Cisticolidae.
Yellow-vented EremomelaEremomela flavicrissalisThe yellow-vented eremomela is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.
Turner's EremomelaEremomela turneriTurner's eremomela is a small, discreet bird being only 9 centimetres long and weighting 6 to 9 grams.
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