Grey tit-flycatcher
| Grey tit-flycatcher | |
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| Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Myioparus |
| Species: | M. plumbeus |
| Binomial name | |
| Myioparus plumbeus (Hartlaub, 1858) | |
The grey tit-flycatcher (Myioparus plumbeus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It has an extensive but patchy distribution in sub-Saharan Africa.
Range and habitat
The tail is often flicked and fanned.
It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Myioparus plumbeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- Grey tit-flycatcher - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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