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Photo by Steve G
Kakamega, Kenya, July, 2011

Adult of race teresita
Photo by MURAMURA
Mbarara, Katojo, western Uganda
December 2006

Alternative name: Blue Crested Flycatcher^[1]

Elminia longicauda

[edit] Identification

Male

• Cobalt blue upperparts and throat
• Lighter below
• Long tail
  

Females and immatures

• Grey
• Narrow band of blue on edges of wing and tail-feathers.

[edit] Distribution

Equatorial Africa
Western Africa: Senegambia, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi

[edit] Taxonomy

Polytypic. Consists of two subspecies. Sometimes considered a superspecies with the White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher, E. albicauda.

1. The alternative name Blue Crested Flycatcher may lead to confusion with Blue-crested Flycatcher, Myiagra azureocapilla.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• E. l. longicauda:

• Senegal to Gambia and Nigeria

• E. l. teresita:

• Cameroon to southern Sudan, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and Angola

[edit] Habitat

Open secondary forest, mangrove, swampy or riverine forests, and wooded savannas, cleared and abandoned fruit and cocoa plantations.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects which can be hawked or gleaned.

[edit] Breeding

It builds a compact, cup-shaped nest. 1-2 white eggs are laid and incubated by the female. Both parents feed the young, with assistance from nonbreeding adults or immatures in the group.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Answers.com

• List of references

[edit] External Links