Mottled Spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri)
About the Mottled Spinetail
The mottled spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 6 recordings for this species: 4 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Kenya, Tanzania in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Other birds you can hear here
- Abyssinian ThrushTurdus abyssinicusrecording
- African BroadbillSmithornis capensisrecording
- African CitrilCrithagra citrinelloidesrecording
- African GoshawkAccipiter tachirorecording
- African Hill BabblerSylvia abyssinicarecording
- African HoopoeUpupa africanarecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.