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 LC    White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher* Id (Atlas):
    Elminia albicauda

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher, Blue Flycatcher, Blue-and-white Crested-flycatcher, White-tailed Blue Flycatcher

Family
Stenostiridae (Fairy Flycatcher And Allies)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Barboza du Bocage, 1877

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From 1,200 - 2,450 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia.

South-western Uganda south through Rift Valley to south-western Tanzania, Malawi and northern Mozambique (Tete District) and west to southern DRCongo, northern Zambia and central Angola; also northern Tanzania (Bugarama and Kifunzo).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

 
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher (Elminia albicauda) [XC234726]
     by Martin St-Michel from Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (call)

 
White-tailed Blue Flycatcher (Elminia albicauda) [XC566382]
     by id from North Swaka Forest Reserve, Mkushi, Central Province, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with African Blue-Flycatcher (Elminia longicauda). The two have been placed in a genus Errannornis, but differences considered insufficient to merit generic separation.


References
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Files:
JPG files for White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher (Elminia albicauda) - 10 files


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