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Vinony's link graph records 28 inbound references to White-backed Mousebird, and connects out to Africa, Animalia and Namibia.
It is catalogued under topics including Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Birds described in 1766 and Birds of Southern Africa.
Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least ConcernDer Weißrücken-Mausvogel (Colius colius) ist eine afrikanische Vogelart aus der Familie der Mausvögel. Der Vogel kommt in den trockenen Savannen Namibias, Botswanas und Südafrikas vor. Der Lebensraum umfasst Strandwüste, küstennahe Fynbosvegetation, Buschland und Halbwüste, gerne auch Baumgürtel in Flussnähe sowie bewässertes Kultur- und Farmland. Die Art ist Standvogel. Das Artepitheton soll sich von altgriechisch κόλοιος koloios, deutsch ‚Dohle‘ ableiten.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Colius
- Mass
- 41.3
- Image
- Colius White-backed mousebird feeding on Duranta berries 9860s.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Colius colius
- taxon name
- Colius colius
- taxon common name
- sivoglava mišjakinja
- litter size
- 3
- longest observed lifespan
- 8
- short name
- C. colius
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
The white-backed mousebird (Colius colius) is a large species of mousebird. It is distributed in western and central regions of southern Africa from Namibia and southern Botswana eastwards to Central Transvaal and the eastern Cape.
This mousebird prefers scrubby dry habitats, such as thornveld, fynbos scrub and semi-desert.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White-backed Mousebird” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.