Longclaws
Macronyx
The longclaws are a genus, Macronyx, of small African passerine birds in the family Motacillidae.
Longclaws are slender, often colorful, ground-feeding insectivores of open country. They are ground nesters, laying up to four speckled eggs. They are named for their unusually long hind claws, which are thought to help walk on grass. There are only between 10,000 and 19,000 Sharpe's longclaw left in Kenya.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 8 known species
Yellow-throated Longclaw
speciesMacronyx croceus
Orange-throated Longclaw
speciesMacronyx capensis
Rosy-throated Longclaw
speciesMacronyx ameliae
Pangani Longclaw
speciesMacronyx aurantiigula
Abyssinian Longclaw
speciesMacronyx flavicollis
Sharpe's Longclaw
speciesMacronyx sharpei
Fülleborn's Longclaw
speciesMacronyx fuelleborni
Grimwood's Longclaw
speciesMacronyx grimwoodi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 14097.