Grey tit-flycatcher

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Grey tit-flycatcher
Grey Tit-Flycatcher (Fraseria plumbea), Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa.jpg
Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa
Scientific classification edit
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, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast,Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Myioparus plumbeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

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