Blue-mantled crested flycatcher | |
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Female photographed in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Monarchidae |
Genus: | Trochocercus |
Species: | T. cyanomelas
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Binomial name | |
Trochocercus cyanomelas (Vieillot, 1818)
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Subspecies | |
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The blue-mantled crested flycatcher or African crested flycatcher (Trochocercus cyanomelas) is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae found in eastern and south-eastern Africa.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
The blue-mantled crested flycatcher was originally described in the genus Muscicapa and some authorities have also classified it in the genus Terpsiphone. Alternate names for the blue-mantled crested flycatcher include blue-mantled flycatcher, blue-mantled paradise-flycatcher, Cape crested-flycatcher and crested flycatcher.
Five subspecies are recognized:[2]
Like all members of the monarch flycatcher family, the blue-mantled crested flycatcher is insectivorous.