Olive-green camaroptera

The olive-green camaroptera is a bird species in the family Cisticolidae.

Taxonomy

The olive-green camaroptera was described by the German ornithologist Anton Reichenow in 1895 under its current binomial name Camaroptera chloronota. The type locality is the forest of Missahohe in the West African state of Togo. The specific epithet chloronota is from the Ancient Greek khlōros meaning "green" and -nōtos meaning "-backed".
There are five subspecies:C. c. kelsalli Sclater, WL, 1927 – Senegal to GhanaC. c. chloronota Reichenow, 1895 – Togo to Cameroon, Gabon and CongoC. c. granti Alexander, 1903 – Bioko IslandC. c. kamitugaensis Prigogine, 1961 – east DR CongoC. c. toroensis – Central African Republic and central DR Congo to southwest Kenya and northwest Tanzania

Distribution and habitat

It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
It tends to fly in flocks of 50–100, so far it avoids intercontinental migration.