African Shrike-flycatcher

Male
Photo by megan perkins
Kakamega, Kenya, December 2006

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

Male on left, Female on right
Photo by Steve G
Kakamega Forest, Kenya, July, 2011

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

1. 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/

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) African Shrike-flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 23 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/African_Shrike-flycatcher

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