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ShrublandCup nestTiny · 8 g
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The yellow-bellied eremomela is a very small bird 10 cm long and weighing around 9 g. Its upperparts are grey, becoming darker and more olive on the wings and tail. There is a thin pale grey supercilium and a blackish stripe through the eye. The grey breast shades into the lemon yellow belly. The bill is blackish. The subspecies vary in the extent and intensity of the yellow on the belly, and birds in western southern Africa have whitish throat and breast. The sexes are similar, but the juvenile has duller yellow underparts than the adult.
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When to see the Yellow-bellied Eremomela
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 Yellow-bellied Eremomela
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.
Recorded as a rare visitor in South Sudan, Lesotho.
About the Yellow-bellied Eremomela
The yellow-bellied eremomela is an Old World warbler. However, the taxonomy of the "African warblers", an assemblage of usually species-poor and apparently rather ancient "odd warblers" from Africa is currently in a state of flux. Today, most taxonomists consider members in this genus members of the family Cisticolidae.
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Easily confused with
Burnt-necked EremomelaEremomela usticollisThe burnt-necked eremomela is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.
Senegal EremomelaEremomela pusillaThe Senegal eremomela is a small bird with a pale brownish grey head and a pale white supercilium.
Green-capped EremomelaEremomela scotopsThe green-capped eremomela or greencap eremomela is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.
Side by side: Senegal Eremomela vs Yellow-bellied Eremomela
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