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What the Pygmy Batis sounds like
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The pygmy batis, as its name suggests, is a tiny, rather dumpy but dapper black, white and grey bird with similarities to the flycatchers. The male has a bluish-grey head and back with a contrasting black face mask and short white supercilium above the yellow eye. The rump and lower back are spotted with white and the rump feathers are relatively long giving a fluffy appearance. It has black wings which have a broad white strip formed by the broad white edges to feathers of the median and greater coverts, and the inner secondaries and tertials. Voice: The main call of the pygmy batis is a ling series of repeated sharp high pitched whistles.
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When to see the Pygmy Batis
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Pygmy Batis
The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Pygmy Batis
The pygmy batis is a very small insectivorous bird which finds its food foraging among leaves, it is a member of the wattle-eyes family, the Platysteiridae. It occurs in the dry savannahs of north-eastern Africa.
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Easily confused with
Pale BatisBatis sororThe pale batis is an active, black, white and grey bird which is pale grey above with a black face mask bordered by a thin white supercilium, yellow eye and a pale grey back, mottled with faint white spots.
Western Black-headed BatisBatis erlangeriThe western black-headed batis or Von Erlanger's batis, is a species of passerine bird in the wattle-eye family Platysteiridae.
Rwenzori BatisBatis diopsThe Rwenzori batis is a small, active black and white Old World flycatcher.
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