Yellow-bellied eremomela (Eremomela icteropygialis), Okaukuejo, Etosha National Park, Namibia
The name is definitely more extravagant than the plumage. When I came across this tiny bird creeping through tree foliage seeking small invertebrates, I thought at first that I was dealing with a very disoriented chiffchaff, however the bill is more robust and the belly more distinctly lemon-coloured. But indeed this species is sometimes included in the muscicapidae. Most taxonomists apparently now regard it as a cisticola.
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Yellow-bellied eremomela (Eremomela icteropygialis), Okaukuejo, Etosha National Park, Namibia
The name is definitely more extravagant than the plumage. When I came across this tiny bird creeping through tree foliage seeking small invertebrates, I thought at first that I was dealing with a very disoriented chiffchaff, however the bill is more robust and the belly more distinctly lemon-coloured. But indeed this species is sometimes included in the muscicapidae. Most taxonomists apparently now regard it as a cisticola.
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