- Platysteira cyanea
Identification
14cm
Male
- Glossy black above
- White below
- Black breast band
- White wingbar
- Fleshy red wattles above the eye
Female
- Grey-black upperparts
- White wing bar
- Red wattles
- Small white chin patch
- Maroon throat and breast
- Black breast band
- White belly
Young males : paler and greyer than female
Distribution
West, central and northeast Africa
Western Africa: Senegambia, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, DRC and Angola.
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.
Taxonomy
Subspecies[1]
There are 3 subspecies:
- P. c. cyanea:
- Senegal to Gabon, Angola, western Central African Republic, and northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo
- P. c. aethiopica:
- Eastern South Sudan and Ethiopia
- P. c. nyansae:
- Eastern Central African Republic and eastern and central Democratic Republic of the Congo to southern South Sudan, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania
Habitat
Gallery forest, primary and secondary Guinea savanna woodland, mature mangrove woodland, river banks, gardens and Farmland.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes insects.
Breeding
It builds a cup nest made from lichen and cobweb, placed low in a bush or tree.
Vocalisation
A ringing whistling call.
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/
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
- BF Member observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Brown-throated Wattle-eye. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Brown-throated_Wattle-eye
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.1
