Verreaux's Batis (Batis minima)

Other Names (World)
Gabon Batis, Verreaux's Batis, Grey-headed Puff-back Flycatcher, Gray-headed Puff-back Flycatcher, Verreaux's Puff-back Flycatcher

Family
Platysteiridae (Batises And Wattle-eyes)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Verreaux & Verreaux, 1855)

Habitat
Lowland forested areas, primary forest within 500 m of the edge, secondary forest with a dense low understorey and a dense discontinuous canopy, old, uncleared cocoa and coffee plantations where the tree layers are beginning to disappear. From sea-level - 800 m.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon (B) (NB), Central African Republic (B) (NB), Equatorial Guinea (B) (NB), Gabon (B) (NB).

Patchily distributed in southern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, and extreme south-western Central African Republic.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
Habitat destruction through clearing and conversion to agriculture is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Arthropods, mainly beetles, but also Hymenoptera and spiders.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

Gabon Batis (Batis minima) [XC506937]
by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Lobeke National park, Gran Savanna camp, Cameroon (song)

Gabon Batis (Batis minima) [XC506936]
by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Lobeke National park, Gran Savanna camp, Cameroon (song)

Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Ituri Batis (Batis ituriensis), with which sometimes treated as conspecific.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Verreauxs Batis (Batis minima) - 8 files

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