Northern Black-Flycatcher (Melaenornis edolioides)

Other Names (World)
Northern Black-Flycatcher, Black Flycatcher, African Black Flycatcher, Northern Black Flycatcher

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
29 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1837)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry forest, dry savanna, plantations. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, 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 (32)...)

Northern Black Flycatcher (Melaenornis edolioides) [XC476000]
by James Bradley from Kafountine, Bignona, Casamance, Senegal (song)

Northern Black Flycatcher (Melaenornis edolioides) [XC396316]
by James Bradley from Dunga, Kisumu, Kenya (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Southern Black-flycatcher (Melaenornis pammelaina).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

edolioides (Swainson, 1837) - Extreme southern Mauritania (Assaba to R Senegal), southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, northern and eastern Guinea, western and south-western Mali (including along R Niger from Mopti to Bamako), northern Ivory Coast and southern Burkina Faso east to extreme south-western Niger, Nigeria (except extreme northern and south) and western Cameroon.
lugubris (von M�ller, JW, 1851) - Eastern Cameroon, southern Chad, northern and central Central African Republic, southern and south-western Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo, and from western Eritrea and western Ethiopia south to Uganda, western Kenya and northern Tanzania.
schistaceus Sharpe, 1895 - Northern and eastern Ethiopia and northern Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Northern Black-Flycatcher (Melaenornis edolioides) - 10 files

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