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Male
Photo by megan perkins
Kakamega, Kenya, December 2006

Megabyas flammulatus

Bias flammulatus

[edit] Identification

Male - black head, back and tail, white underparts.
Female - brown back, grey/brown head and posterior neck and white underparts with brown stripes.

[edit] Distribution

Male on left, Female on right
Photo by Steve G
Kakamega Forest, Kenya, July, 2011

Africa
Western Africa: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
African Islands: Gulf of Guinea Islands, Bioko (Fernando Po)

[edit] Taxonomy

Megabyas flammulatus has two subspecies:¹

• M. f. flammulatus

• Sierra Leone to Cameroon, Gabon and western Zaire; also Bioko

• M. f. aequatorialis

• North-western Angola to Zaire, Uganda, western Kenya and extreme southern Sudan

[edit] Habitat

Dry and moist lowland forests.

[edit] Behaviour

Has a habit of wagging it's tail from side to side when perched

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist

• List of references

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