African Blue-Flycatcher (Elminia longicauda)

Other Names (World)
African Blue-Flycatcher, Blue Crested-flycatcher, Blue Fairy Flycatcher, African Blue Flycatcher

Family
Stenostiridae (Fairy Flycatcher And Allies)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1838)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

African Blue Flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) [XC425384]
by Peter Boesman from Tendaba, Kiang Central, North Bank Division, Gambia (song)

African Blue Flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) [XC530142]
by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Yaounde, Bastos, near to WWF headquarters, Cameroon (song)

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.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for African Blue-Flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) - 10 files

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