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''Dyaphorophyia blissetti''
  
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==Identification==
 
==Identification==
 
Length 9 cm. Blue eye wattles; black bill, legs and feet; chestnut patches extend from beneath the eyes to the upper breast and sides of the neck; black throat and white lower breast and belly.
 
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Latest revision as of 10:53, 5 June 2016

Alternative name: Blissett's Wattle-eye

Photo by Andrew Whitehouse
Atewa, Ghana, April, 2016
Platysteira blissetti

Dyaphorophyia blissetti

Identification

Length 9 cm. Blue eye wattles; black bill, legs and feet; chestnut patches extend from beneath the eyes to the upper breast and sides of the neck; black throat and white lower breast and belly.

The male has glossy black upperparts whereas the upperparts of the female are dark grey.

Distribution

Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, and Cameroon.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

This species is placed in the genus Dyaphorophyia by some authorities.

Habitat

Tropical moist lowland forests.

Behaviour

Vocalisation

High-pitched tee teee tee whistle as well as churring calls.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

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