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Birdwatching in Africa - Northern Black Flycatcher, Melaenornis edolioides


The Northern Black Flycatcher (Melaenornis edolioides) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.

Range
This is an insectivorous species which is a resident breeder in tropical Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Zaire and Tanzania.

Habitat
The northern black flycatcher is found in moist wooded areas and cultivation. It nests in a hole or reuses the old nest of another species, and lays two or three eggs. Breeding takes place in the wet season.

Range map from www.oiseaux.net

Range map
Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
www.oiseaux.net is one of those MUST visit pages if you're in to bird watching. You can find just about everything there


Description The northern black flycatcher is 20 centimetres long. It is a large upright long-tailed flycatcher. The adult is uniformly black. Juveniles are blackish-brown with buff scaling.

The long square-ended tail helps to distinguish this species from two other all-black insectivores, the fork-tailed drongo and the shorter-tailed and red-eyed common square-tailed drongo.

Song
This flycatcher has a simple musical song and a thin tsee-whee call.

Length: 20 cm
Wingspan:
Weight: 28 - 36 g
Longevity:
Distinctive Feature

Similar Species

• Southern Black-Flycatcher is very similar but lacks the graduated tail (except if in moult).

From opus at www.birdforum.net the forum for wild birds and birding.
Female / Male



From opus at www.birdforum.net the forum for wild birds and birding.


Listen to the Northern Black Flycatcher

Remarks from the Recordist

Calls? from the same bird as in XC267176, in response to playback.



Remarks from the Recordist

Natural vocalizations; songs from one of a pair of birds sitting low in a dense tangle in dry forest at the base of tall cliff.


www.xeno-canto.org


Conservation status
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 27 October 2019
Location: Fish Market in Ziway, Ethiopia


Northern Black Flycatcher, Melaenornis edolioides
Northern Black Flycatcher - 27 October 2019 - Fish Market in Ziway, Ethiopia




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