Black-and-white shrike-flycatcher

Species of bird

Black-and-white shrike-flycatcher
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Vangidae
Genus: Bias
Lesson, 1831
Species:
B. musicus
Binomial name
Bias musicus
(Vieillot, 1818)

The black-and-white shrike-flycatcher (Bias musicus), also known as the black-and-white flycatcher or vanga flycatcher, is a species of passerine bird found in Africa. It was placed with the wattle-eyes and batises in the family Platysteiridae but is now considered to be more closely related to the helmetshrikes and woodshrikes.

Illustration by Otto Finsch

It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Bias musicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22707816A94138686. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22707816A94138686.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

External links

  • Black-and-white shrike-flycatcher/vanga flycatcher – Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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Taxon identifiers
Bias musicus


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