Kemp's Longbill

Macrosphenus kempi

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 13 g

When to see the Kemp's Longbill

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Kemp's Longbill

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 7 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 Togo.

About the Kemp's Longbill

Kemp's longbill is a species of Old World warbler in the family Macrosphenidae. It is found in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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Easily confused with

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