Northern Crombec

When to see the Northern Crombec

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Northern Crombec

The map shades 25 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 Sudan, Togo.

About the Northern Crombec

The northern crombec is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

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

Easily confused with

Green CrombecSylvietta virensThe green crombec is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. Red-faced CrombecSylvietta whytiiThe red-faced crombec is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. White-browed CrombecSylvietta leucophrysThe white-browed crombec is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae.