Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebrates

ForestDomed nestTiny · 8 g

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 1 — Photo: Kalvin Chan · CC BY 4.0

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 2 — Photo: Jason Alexander · CC BY 4.0

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 3 — Photo: (c) ꦥꦤ꧀ꦗꦶꦒꦸꦱ꧀ꦠꦶꦄꦏ꧀ꦧꦂ, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Ganjar Cahyadi, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 5 — Photo: (c) ꦥꦤ꧀ꦗꦶꦒꦸꦱ꧀ꦠꦶꦄꦏ꧀ꦧꦂ, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 6 — Photo: (c) ꦥꦤ꧀ꦗꦶꦒꦸꦱ꧀ꦠꦶꦄꦏ꧀ꦧꦂ, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Matt Muir, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Eric Knight, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Olive-backed Tailorbird (Orthotomus sepium), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Ganjar Cahyadi, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Olive-backed Tailorbird sounds like

Sonogram of the Olive-backed Tailorbird: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Untung Sarmawi · Song · Melaya, Jembrana Regency, Bali, Indonesia · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

It is small, with a rust-colored head.

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When to see the Olive-backed Tailorbird

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

Where to see the Olive-backed Tailorbird

Regular range

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

Indonesia

About the Olive-backed Tailorbird

The olive-backed tailorbird is a species of passerine bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, it but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.

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Easily confused with

Grey-backed TailorbirdOrthotomus derbianusThe gray-backed tailorbird is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.

Visayan TailorbirdOrthotomus castaneicepsIt was formerly conspecific with trilling tailorbird.

Cambodian TailorbirdOrthotomus chaktomukThe Cambodian tailorbird has an orange-red crown, and a black throat.

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