Banded Wattle-eye

Platysteira laticincta

Vulnerable · IUCN Red List

VUVulnerableInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 14 g

When to see the Banded Wattle-eye

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Banded Wattle-eye

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country 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 Nigeria.

About the Banded Wattle-eye

The banded wattle-eye is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae. It is endemic to the Bamenda Highlands in western Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. In particular, it likely prefers low-altitude forests with more bare ground and denser undergrowth cover.

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