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The African shrike-flycatcher is a small, 16 cm (6.3 in), songbird with an upright flycatcher-like shape and a broad and hooked bill. The plumage varies between the males and females. Males have dark blue-black upperparts and a white throat, breast, belly and rump. The eyes are red coloured, the bill black, and the legs reddish-purple. In contrast the female has a brown head, rufous brown back and tail, and the underparts are white streaked with brown.
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When to see the African Shrike-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 Shrike-flycatcher
The map shades 19 countries with regular records, and 1 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 South Sudan.
About the African Shrike-flycatcher
The African shrike-flycatcher or red-eyed shrike-flycatcher is a species of bird in the vanga family Vangidae. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Megabyas.
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