Green-backed Eremomela

When to see the Green-backed Eremomela

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Green-backed Eremomela

The map shades 7 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Eritrea, Malawi.

About the Green-backed Eremomela

The green-backed eremomela is a member of the Cisticolidae. This bird is a common resident breeder in tropical Africa from Kenya and Ethiopia to Cameroon.

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Easily confused with

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. Black-necked EremomelaEremomela atricollisThe black-necked eremomela is a small bird, being on average 11 cm long and weighing 10 g. Turner's EremomelaEremomela turneriTurner's eremomela is a small, discreet bird being only 9 centimetres long and weighting 6 to 9 grams.