Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher

Trochocercus cyanomelas

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 10 g

When to see the Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 11 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 Burundi.

About the Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher

The blue-mantled crested flycatcher or African crested flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae found in eastern and south-eastern Africa.

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