Brubru
A species of Brubru Scientific name : Nilaus afer Genus : Brubru
Brubru, A species of Brubru
Botanical name: Nilaus afer
Genus: Brubru
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Description General Info
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Description
The brubru is a small passerine, 12–15 cm long. The adult male of the nominate subspecies, N. a. afer, has a black crown, white supercilium and forehead, and black eyestripe. The back is black with a tawny strip, the rump is mottled black, and the tail is black with white tips and edges to the outer feathers. The wings are black with a buff shoulder stripe. The underparts are white with rufous flanks. The female is duller and browner, with some streaking on the underparts and less rufous on the flanks. The juvenile is mottled brown, buff and white above, with buff edgings to the wing and tail feathers. Its underparts are whitish with brown barring. The male of the most distinctive of the other subspecies, N. a. nigritemporalis, occurring in the central belt across Africa, has no supercilium and a white, not buff, shoulder patch. Other subspecies differ in the extent of the supercilium and rufous flanks, and the shade and degree of streaking of the underparts. The song is a duet. The male gives a soft prrrrruuu call, often answered by the female's eeeu. 
Nest Placement
Cavity
Feeding Habits
Brubru primarily consumes invertebrates such as moths, caterpillars, ants, beetles, grasshoppers, flies, and spiders. It forages alone in the canopy, acrobatically gleaning from foliage at various angles, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks, and occasionally hawks insects mid-air. Brubru holds larger prey with its foot while feeding.
Habitat
The brubru inhabits a range of woodland environments, typically favoring dry open woodlands. Its preferred habitats include acacia and broadleaf woodlands, particularly those with mature Brachystegia, Colophospermum, Combretum, and Terminalia species. These woodlands often exhibit a park-like structure with some regions being mesic, and others arid where brubru may be found in isolated thorn tree clumps. Geographically, brubru's habitat extends across various woodland types, often within an altitudinal range of 530–2120 meters in Ethiopia and up to 1360 meters in Eritrea.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Feeding Habits
Bird food type
Behavior
The brubru is usually solitary or found in pairs; it is a restless but unobtrusive arboreal species which hunts insects in the canopy. Its need for large trees in which to feed means that it has an unusually large territory for a bird of its size, typically 35 hectares. If insects are abundant, it will join mixed-species feeding flocks.
Distribution Area
Its habitat is dry open woodland, but varies geographically. The six northern races and the subspecies N. a. Brubru of southern Africa are found in acacia and broadleaved woodland, whereas the three subspecies in a belt from northeastern Angola and northern Namibia east to Tanzania and northern Mozambique occur in Brachystegia miombo woodland.
Species Status
Not globally threatened.
Scientific Classification
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