Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo © by volker sthamer
Kibale forest, Uganda, July 2018

Bias musicus

Identification

Female
Photo &copy by andy wilkes
Uganda

16 cm (6¼ in)
Black crest and bill. Yellow eyes, legs and feet
Male

• Black upperparts, throat and bib
• White wing patches
  

Female

• Bright chestnut back and tail

Distribution

Africa:
West Africa: Sierra Leone to northern Angola, Zaire
East Africa: Uganda, Kenya to eastern Tanzania

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• B. m. musicus (feminina, pallidiventris):

• Sierra Leone to northern Angola, Zaire, Uganda and north-western Tanzania

• B. m. changamwensis:

• Kenya to eastern Tanzania

• B. m. clarens:

• Southern Malawi to eastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique

Habitat

Dry and moist lowland forests and moist montane forest up to altitude of 1500 m.s.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of arthropods and some small vertebrates.

Vocalisation

A loud whistle; whitu-whitu-whitu.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2018)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 6 February 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-and-white_Shrike-flycatcher

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