Northern Black Flycatcher
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| Gambia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Melaenornis |
| Species: | M. edolioides |
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| Melaenornis edolioides (Swainson, 1837) |
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The Northern Black Flycatcher (Melaenornis edolioides) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
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[edit] Range
This is an insectivorous species which is a resident breeder in tropical Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Zaire and Tanzania.
[edit] Habitat
The Northern Black Flycatcher is found in moist wooded areas and cultivation. It nests in a hole or reuses the old nest of another species, and lays two or three eggs. Breeding takes place in the wet season.
[edit] Description
The Northern Black Flycatcher is 20 centimetres (7.9 in) long. It is a large upright long-tailed flycatcher. The adult is uniformly black. Juveniles are blackish-brown with buff scaling.
The long square-ended tail helps to distinguish this species from two other all-black insectivores, the Fork-tailed Drongo and the shorter-tailed and red-eyed Square-tailed Drongo.
[edit] Song
This flycatcher has a simple musical song and a thin tsee-whee call.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Melaenornis edolioides. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 6 May 2006.
- Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1
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