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title: "Red-faced Mousebird"
description: "Urocolius indicus — Uccelli. The red-faced mousebird (Urocolius indicus) is a species of mousebird or coly."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/red-faced-mousebird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Red-faced Mousebird

> Urocolius indicus — Uccelli. The red-faced mousebird (Urocolius indicus) is a species of mousebird or coly.

- Scientific name: *Urocolius indicus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `urban` (Città e giardini), `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 2281
- Wikidata: [Q260240](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260240)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3689](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3689)

## Names

- en: Red-faced Mousebird
- de: Rotzügelmausvogel
- es: Pájaro Ratón Carirrojo
- fr: Coliou quiriva
- nl: Roodwangmuisvogel
- pt: Rabo-de-junco-de-faces-vermelhas
- pl: Czepiga czerwonolica

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (1790), NA (98), BW (88), ZM (70), ZW (51), MW (26), AO (22), MZ (16), SZ (15)

## Summary

The red-faced mousebird (Urocolius indicus) is a species of mousebird or coly. It is a common in southern Africa from the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Zambia  and Tanzania south to the Cape. Its habitat is savanna with thickets, fynbos scrub, other open woodland, gardens and orchards.
There are a total of five recognized subspecies:

Urocolius indicus mossambicus (Distribution: east Angola to southwest Tanzania and Malawi)
Urocolius indicus lacteifrons (Distribution: western Angola, north & central Namibia and western Botswana)
Urocolius indicus pallidus (Distribution: southeast Tanzania and northeast…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-faced_mousebird

## Photo

![Red-faced Mousebird](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-faced-mousebird/medium.jpg)

Photo: Francesco Cecere · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3849745

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-faced-mousebird?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).