| African Blue-flycatcher Elminia longicauda (aka Blue Crested-flycatcher) |
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Mole, Ghana The African Blue-flycatcher is distributed in tropical Africa from Senegal to Uganda and south to northern Angola. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in woodland, gallery forest, forest edges and farmbush. |
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It is normally included in the Monarch Flycatcher Monarchidae family though there is some doubt about this. The HBW and Birdlife International checklist now places it in a family along with Fairy Flycatcher. These photos show a Blue Crested Flycatcher in typical foraging pose with fanned tail and half open wings very reminiscent of rhipidurid fantails of Australia. This bird was having a very fruitful time catching the small flies that you can see in the photos. | |||
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