Description Urocolius macrourus
English: Blue-naped Mousebird
Date 10 January 2009
Source Own work
Author Doug Janson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dougjj
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urocolius_macrourus-20090110B.jpg

The blue-naped mousebird (Urocolius macrourus), also formerly called the blue-naped coly (Colius macrourus) is found in the wild in the drier regions of East Africa and is also a common pet bird. It is one of the remaining six species of Mousebirds. The term “mousebird” comes from its ability to move along the ground in a way that resembles the scurrying of a mouse. Order: Coliiformes, Family: Coliidae, Binomial name: Urocolius macrourus (Linnaeus, 1766)