Monarch-flycatchers (Monarchidae)
Blue Crested-flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) - HBW 11, p. 325
French: Elminie bleue
German: Blauhaubenschnäpper
Spanish: Elminia Azul
Other common names: African Blue Flycatcher, Blue Fairy Flycatcher
Taxonomy: Myiagra longicauda Swainson, 1838, Senegal.
Forms a superspecies with E. albicauda; the two have been placed in a genus Errannornis, but differences considered insufficient to merit generic separation. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- longicauda (Swainson, 1838) - Senegal and Gambia E discontinuously to S Mali, S Burkina Faso and Nigeria.
- teresita Antinori, 1864 - Cameroon S to N Angola and E through DRCongo to S Sudan, Uganda, W Kenya and extreme NW Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird looking around, flying and returning to its perch Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp teresita)
Josep del Hoyo 8 September 2006 4 years ago 41 sec 4.4 -
adult bird rooming around Locality Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp teresita)
Daniêl Jimenez 24 September 2010 1 year ago 40 sec 3.7 -
A bird changing its perch and looking around Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp teresita)
Josep del Hoyo 8 September 2006 4 years ago 23 sec 3.6 -
leaving and returning to perch Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp teresita)
Martin Kennewell 1 June 2004 43 weeks ago 25 sec 3.5
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A bird perched on a twig
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana (ssp longicauda)
Ian Fulton 9 March 2009 2 years ago 3.5 -
frontal view of perched bird
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana
Chris and Megan Perkins 22 February 2011 39 weeks ago 3.2 -
A bird alert on a branch
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana (ssp longicauda)
Ian Fulton 9 March 2009 2 years ago 3
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