Eastern Nicator

What the Eastern Nicator sounds like

Recorded by Louis A. Hansen · Song · Arabuko-Sokoke, T-junction at Elephant road, Kenya · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Eastern Nicator

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Eastern Nicator

The map shades 9 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 Benin, Botswana.

About the Eastern Nicator

The eastern nicator is a species of songbird in the family Nicatoridae. It is found in Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It occurs south to around Mtunzini in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and is regularly reported from lowland areas north through to east Africa, including inland areas along the Zambezi River.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Western NicatorNicator chlorisIt is very similar to the eastern nicator, but the sides of the face and crown are olive green. Yellow-throated NicatorNicator vireoThe yellow-throated nicator is a species of songbird in the family Nicatoridae.