Chestnut Wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia castanea)

Other Scientific Names
Dyaphorophyia castanea [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)]

Family
Platysteiridae (Batises And Wattle-eyes)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
Fraser, 1843

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (39)...)

Chestnut Wattle-eye (Platysteira castanea) [XC509079]
by Peter Boesman from Mad Man's crossing, Jimbe drainage, North-western province, Zambia (call)

Chestnut Wattle-eye (Platysteira castanea) [XC739912]
by Peter Boesman from Royal Mile Budongo forest, Uganda (call)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

hormophora Fraser, 1843 - Sierra Leone east to Benin. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, West African Wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia hormophora).
castanea (Fraser, 1843) - Southern Nigeria to southern Sudan, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania (Bukoba), south to northern Angola (north of 10�S), southern DRCongo (Kasaji, in Katanga) and extreme northern Zambia (Mwinilunga); Bioko I (Fernando P�o).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Chestnut Wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia castanea) - 10 files

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