African Blue Flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) [XC739651]
by id from Masindi farmland, Uganda (song)
African Blue Flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) [XC405127]
by Peter Boesman from R\u00e9serve Naturelle Communautaire de Dindefelo, K\u00e9dougou, Senegal (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.