- Megabyas flammulatus
Bias flammulatus
Identification
Male - black head, back and tail, white underparts.
Female - brown back, grey/brown head and posterior neck and white underparts with brown stripes.
Distribution
Africa
Western Africa: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
African Islands: Gulf of Guinea Islands, Bioko (Fernando Po)
Taxonomy
Megabyas flammulatus has two subspecies:1
- M. f. flammulatus
- Sierra Leone to Cameroon, Gabon and western Zaire; also Bioko
- M. f. aequatorialis
- Northern Angola to central Democratic Republic of the Congo, extreme southern South Sudan, Uganda, and western Kenya; also southeastern DRC and adjacent northwestern Zambia
Habitat
Dry and moist lowland forests.
Behaviour
Has a habit of wagging it's tail from side to side when perched
Diet
The diet includes insects.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) African Shrike-flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 24 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/African_Shrike-flycatcher
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