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Blue-mantled crested flycatcher

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Blue-mantled crested flycatcher
Female photographed in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
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T. cyanomelas
Binomial name
Trochocercus cyanomelas
(Vieillot, 1818)

The blue-mantled crested flycatcher or African crested flycatcher (Trochocercus cyanomelas) is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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