African Blue Flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) [XC98854]
by Rory Nefdt from Mount Kupe, Nature Trail, Nyasoso, Cameroon (song)
African Blue Flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) [XC360444]
by Barry Edmonston from West Gonja, Northern Region, Ghana (alarm call, call)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher (Elminia albicauda). The two have been placed in a genus Errannornis, but differences considered insufficient to merit generic separation.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
longicauda (Swainson, 1838) - Senegal and Gambia eastern discontinuously to southern Mali, southern Burkina Faso and Nigeria.
teresita Antinori, 1864 - Cameroon south to northern Angola and east through DRCongo to southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya and extreme north-western Tanzania.