Malawi Batis

When to see the Malawi Batis

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

Where to see the Malawi Batis

The map shades 3 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 Tanzania.

About the Malawi Batis

The Malawi batis is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae. It is found in Malawi and adjadjacent areas of eastern Zambia, and northern Mozambique. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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Easily confused with

West African BatisBatis occultaThe West African batis is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae. Gabon BatisBatis minimaThe adult male has a velvety black head with a white loral spot and narrow supercilium, the head colour fades to blackish-grey on the hindcrown and is separated from the back by a white collar. 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.