African shrike-flycatcher
| African shrike-flycatcher | |
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| Male specimen at Nairobi National Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Vangidae |
| Genus: | Megabyas Verreaux & Verreaux, 1855 |
| Species: | M. flammulatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Megabyas flammulatus Verreaux, J & Verreaux, É, 1855
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| Synonyms | |
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Bias flammulatus | |
The African shrike-flycatcher or red-eyed shrike-flycatcher (Megabyas flammulatus) is a species of
monotypic
genus Megabyas.
Distribution and habitat
The African shrike-flycatcher is found in the African countries of Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
References
- . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Louette, M. (2019). "African Shrike-flycatcher (Megabyas flammulatus)". In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D. A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Retrieved 25 November 2019.