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Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher (Bias musicus)

Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher (Bias musicus) - Female
Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher (Bias musicus) - Female

About Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher (Bias musicus)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Perching Birds
  • Family: Shrike-flycatchers

The black-and-white shrike-flycatcher (Bias musicus), also known as the black-and-white flycatcher or vanga flycatcher, is a species of passerine bird found in Africa. It is often placed with the wattle-eyes and batises in the Platysteiridae family but may be more closely related to the helmetshrikes and woodshrikes.

Illustration by Otto Finsch

It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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Lifelists

Visits

  • 2003-03-15
    Bigodi Swamp, Uganda
  • 2017-01-06
    Bwindi Impenetrable Forest - Buhoma, Uganda
    Image from 2017-01-06
  • 2017-01-07
    Bwindi Impenetrable Forest - Buhoma, Uganda
    Image from 2017-01-07
  • 2017-01-11
    Bigodi Swamp, Uganda