Dark Batis

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When to see the Dark Batis

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Dark Batis

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Dark Batis

The dark batis is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Batis in the wattle-eye family, Platysteiridae. It is found in highland forest in south-west Tanzania, northern Malawi, and northern Mozambique. These birds were formerly thought to be forest batises but in 2006 were described as a new species based on differences in morphology and mitochondrial DNA from those birds in northern Tanzania and Kenya.

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Easily confused with

Angola BatisBatis minullaThe Angola batis is a small pied songbird with a rather dumpy appearance and a restless nature. Margaret's BatisBatis margaritaeMargaret's batis is a small, mainly black and white shrike-like bird with a black face mask and reddish eye, in a mainly dark grey head. Ituri BatisBatis ituriensisThe Ituri batis is a very small black and white bird, like a small shrike or old world flycatcher which is white below with a broad black breast band, a black head with a conspicuous white loral spot in front of a bright yellow eye.