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Mottled Spinetail

Telacanthura ussheri

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCavity nestSmall · 33 g
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 1
Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · cc-by
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 2
Photo: andygpos · CC BY 4.0
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 3
Photo: andygpos · CC BY 4.0
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 4
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 5
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 6
Photo: Tom Field · CC BY 4.0
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 7
Photo: Christiaan Viljoen · CC BY 4.0
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 8
Photo: Christiaan Viljoen · CC BY 4.0
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 9
Photo: Jan Ebr · CC BY 4.0
Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), photo 10
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

When to see the Mottled Spinetail

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

Where to see the Mottled Spinetail

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 26 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.

Ghana Gambia Tanzania Nigeria South Africa Senegal Kenya Zimbabwe Côte d’Ivoire Mozambique Benin Uganda Equatorial Guinea Cameroon Guinea-Bissau Angola Gabon Togo Guinea Burkina Faso Congo - Kinshasa Malawi Central African Republic Congo - Brazzaville Zambia Liberia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mali, Niger.

About the Mottled Spinetail

The mottled spinetail is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Black Spinetail (Telacanthura melanopygia) Black SpinetailTelacanthura melanopygiaThe black spinetail is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

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