Plain Greenbul Andropadus curvirostris Cameroon Sombre Greenbul, Eurillas curvirostris

Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
(aka Cameroon Sombre Greenbul, Andropadus curvirostris)

Plain Greenbul, Kakum National Park, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

Kakum, Ghana
May 2011

The Plain Greenbul is distributed in Equatorial Africa from Sierra Leone to Lake Victoria. It is found in forest where it is usually skulking around mid-levels.

It is a fairly featureless greenbul, olivaceous-brown with paler underparts, a hint of ginger on the flanks and a reddish-brown tail. It has a narrow, broken white eyering.

The voice is a better diagnostic but this is complicated by the fact that the two sub-species have different voices to the extent that some authorities think they might constitute two species.

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