Urocolius macrourus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Boulaouad, Belkacem Aimene, Djetti, Tayeb, Belkacem, Mohamed, Ailam, Oussama, Harzallah, Bachir, Missoum, Mohamed, Ayyach, Khaled & Telailia, Saleh, 2024, Bird diversity and annotated checklist of Afrotropical species in extreme south of Algeria, Acta Zoológica Lilloana 68 (1), pp. 17-27 : 22

Urocolius macrourus

The Blue-naped Mousebird ( Urocolius macrourus ) was initially observed by Haddad and Bekkouche in 2018 in Tawandert. This marked the first recorded sighting of several individuals ( Haddad and Bekkouche, 2021; Boulaouad et al., 2021). A second observation occurred in October 2022, followed by a third sighting in November of the same year, all within the same region. These observations lead us to believe that this species resides in the southernmost part of Algeria.