Olive-backed Forest Robin

When to see the Olive-backed Forest Robin

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

Where to see the Olive-backed Forest Robin

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Olive-backed Forest Robin

The olive-backed forest robin is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that is found in the Gamba Complex within southwest Gabon. It was described in 2008. The olive-backed forest robin can be distinguished from other species in the forest robin complex by the combination of its olive upperparts, bright orange throat and chest, and cream-yellow belly. Its song is also distinct from other subspecies of the forest robin. Females are generally duller than males.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-breasted Forest RobinStiphrornis mabiraeIt has a total length of around 12 cm (4+3⁄4 in), has dark upperparts, and a throat and chest that, depending on the exact subspecies, is yellow-orange or deep orange. Orange-breasted Forest RobinStiphrornis erythrothoraxIt has a total length of around 12 cm (4+3⁄4 in), has dark upperparts, and a throat and chest that, depending on the exact subspecies, is yellow-orange or deep orange.