Brown-throated Wattle-eye (Platysteira cyanea)

Other Names (World)
Brown-throated Wattle-eye, Common Wattle-eye, Banded Wattle-eye(!), Scarlet-spectacled Wattle-eye

Family
Platysteiridae (Batises And Wattle-eyes)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(M�ller, 1776)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest and shrubland, dry forest, dry savanna, mangroves.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, 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 (118)...)

Brown-throated Wattle-eye (Platysteira cyanea) [XC530963]
by Alessandra from Awasa, Sidama, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, Ethiopia (song)

Brown-throated Wattle-eye (Platysteira cyanea) [XC301459]
by Bram Piot from coastal plains between Elmina and Komenda, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

cyanea (M�ller, 1776) - Senegal east to western Central African Republic, south to north-western Angola and north-western DRCongo (southern approximately to R Congo).
nyansae Neumann, 1905 - Eastern Central African Republic and DRCongo (from lower and middle R Congo) east to southern Sudan, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania islands in L Victoria (Kome, Ukerewe).
aethiopica Neumann, 1905 - Southern Ethiopia and extreme south-eastern Sudan.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Brown-throated Wattle-eye (Platysteira cyanea) - 10 files

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