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The African blue flycatcher is a dainty, pale, bright blue flycatcher with a short crest and long tail. The entire upper parts and tail are bright blue, shading between blue and cyan, with black lores and black flight feathers edged with blue, the underparts are greyish blue fading to whitish on the belly. The bill and legs are black. Juveniles are duller with faint greyish spotting on the head and wing coverts. It measures 15–18 cm (5.9–7.1 in) in length and weighs 7–12 g (0.25–0.42 oz). Voice: The song of the African blue flycatcher is a series of slow, rather random and tuneless sibilant notes strung together in no particular order. Call is a quiet "tsip".
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When to see the African Blue Flycatcher
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the African Blue Flycatcher
The map shades 20 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Congo - Brazzaville, Niger.
About the African Blue Flycatcher
The African blue flycatcher or blue-crested flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Stenostiridae from western and central Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Easily confused with
White-tailed Blue FlycatcherElminia albicaudaThe white-tailed blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Stenostiridae.
White-tailed Crested FlycatcherElminia albonotataThe white-tailed crested flycatcher is a species of bird in the flycatcher family Stenostiridae.
White-bellied Crested FlycatcherElminia albiventrisThe white-bellied crested flycatcher is a bird species in the family Stenostiridae; it was formerly placed with the drongos in the Dicruridae.
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