Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher (Trochocercus cyanomelas) [XC466982]
by Frank Lambert from Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya (call, song)
Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher (Trochocercus cyanomelas) [XC466981]
by Frank Lambert from Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya (call)
Subspecies
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
vivax Neave, 1909 - Western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, north-western Tanzania, south-eastern DRCongo (Shaba) and adjacent northern and western Zambia.
bivittatus Reichenow, 1879 - South-central and south-eastern Kenya, southern Somalia and to eastern Tanzania, including Zanzibar I. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Eastern Crested-flycatcher (Trochocercus bivittatus).
megalolophus Swynnerton, 1907 - Malawi and northern Mozambique south to eastern Zimbabwe and north-eastern South Africa (eastern KwaZulu-Natal).
segregus Clancey, 1975 - North-eastern South Africa (eastern northern Province south to western KwaZulu-Natal).
cyanomelas (Vieillot, 1818) - Coastal southern and south-eastern South Africa.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet