---
title: "Witstuitmuisvogel"
description: "Colius colius — Vogels. The white-backed mousebird (Colius colius) is a large species of mousebird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/white-backed-mousebird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Witstuitmuisvogel

> Colius colius — Vogels. The white-backed mousebird (Colius colius) is a large species of mousebird.

- Scientific name: *Colius colius*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savanne)
- iNaturalist observations: 2532
- Wikidata: [Q520277](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q520277)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3722](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3722)

## Names

- en: White-backed Mousebird
- de: Weißrückenmausvogel
- es: Pájaro Ratón Dorsiblanco
- fr: Coliou à dos blanc
- nl: Witstuitmuisvogel
- pt: Rabo-de-junco-de-dorso-branco
- pl: Czepiga białogrzbieta

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (2090), NA (340), BW (23)

## Summary

The white-backed mousebird (Colius colius) is a large species of mousebird. It is distributed in western and central regions of southern Africa from Namibia and southern Botswana eastwards to Central Transvaal and the eastern Cape.
This mousebird prefers scrubby dry habitats, such as thornveld, fynbos scrub and semi-desert.

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

## Photo

![Witstuitmuisvogel](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-backed-mousebird/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dave Brown · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48753005

## Machine access

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