White-headed Mousebird

It is 32 cm long with the long, graduated tail accounting for over half of this. The plumage is mainly greyish with black and white barring on the back, neck and breast. It has a white crest, crown and cheeks. There is a white stripe down the back which becomes visible when the bird flies. Around the eye is a patch of dark, bare skin. The bill is bluish-white above and buff below. In juvenile birds, the throat and breast are buff. The northern subspecies is darker than the southern form .

The White-headed Mousebird is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The White-headed Mousebird (Colius leucocephalus) is a bird belonging to the mousebird family, Coliidae. It is found only in north-east Africa where it occurs in southern Somalia and parts of Kenya with its range just extending into southern Ethiopia and northern Tanzania. It inhabits arid bushland up to 1,400 metres above sea-level. It is 32 cm long with the long, graduated tail accounting for over half of this. The plumage is mainly greyish with black and white barring on the back, neck and breast. More

For the purposes of our bird news services, White-headed Mousebird is classed as ungraded: species which are unlikely to appear as wild birds in Britain or Ireland (Note that rarity levels are currently applied nationally and may not reflect local variations in abundance. More

species are placed in Colius, including White-headed Mousebird of east Africa (left). White-headed Mousebird, like most of this genus, is a bird of arid thornscrub. Its range is limited to a band of such thornscrub from s. Somalia to n.e. Tanzania. The most widespread species, Speckled Mousebird C. striatus, occurs more broadly in a variety of woodlands. More

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White-headed Mousebird (Colius leucocephalus), which is sympatric with the Speckled Mousebird but associated with more arid regions than those occupied by the latter species. In contrast, the two species of Urocolius are allopatric, and may be regarded as forming a single superspecies. The Blue-naped Mousebird (Urocolius macrourus) occupies a broad belt of the Sahelian and Sudanese regions, from Mauretania and Senegambia across to Ethiopia and Somalia and southwards in East Africa to Tanzania. More