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Terpsiphone bedfordi

Identification

18 cm

  • Bluish-grey overall plumage
  • Glossy steel-blue to black head
  • Short graduated tail

Distribution

Africa: found in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (north-eastern Ituri and region west of Itombwe and Kahuzi Mountains)

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Lowland evergreen and deciduous forests, from 980m.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists almost entirely of insects including moths and grasshoppers.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved March 201

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