Blue-mantled crested flycatcher
| Blue-mantled crested flycatcher | |
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| Female photographed in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Monarchidae |
| Genus: | Trochocercus |
| Species: | T. cyanomelas |
| Binomial name | |
| Trochocercus cyanomelas (Vieillot, 1818) | |
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The blue-mantled crested flycatcher or African crested flycatcher (Trochocercus cyanomelas) is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Subspecies
Five subspecies are recognized:[2]
- T. c. vivax - Neave, 1909: Found from Uganda and north-western Tanzania to south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern and western Zambia
- T. c. bivittatus - Reichenow, 1879: Found from Somalia to eastern Tanzania
- T. c. megalolophus - Swynnerton, 1907: Found from Malawi and northern Mozambique to Zimbabwe and eastern KwaZulu-Natal (north-eastern South Africa)
- T. c. segregus - Clancey, 1975: Found in eastern Northern Province and western KwaZulu-Natal (north-eastern South Africa)
- T. c. cyanomelas - (Vieillot, 1818): Found in south and south-eastern South Africa
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Trochocercus cyanomelas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ "IOC World Bird List 6.3". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.3.
External links
- Blue-mantled crested flycatcher - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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