Blue-headed crested flycatcher

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Blue-headed crested flycatcher
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Monarchidae
Genus:
Trochocercus
Species:
T. nitens
Binomial name
Trochocercus nitens
Cassin, 1859
Subspecies

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The blue-headed crested flycatcher (Trochocercus nitens) is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized:[2]

  • T. n. reichenowi - Sharpe, 1904: Found from Guinea to Togo
  • T. n. nitens - Cassin, 1859: Found from Nigeria to southern Sudan, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and norh-western Angola

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN
  2. ^ "IOC World Bird List 6.3". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.3.


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