Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea Platysteira castanea

Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
(aka Platysteira castanea)

Ghana
May 2011

The Chestnut Wattle-eye is distributed in tropical Africa from Sierra Leone to western Kenya and south to Angola. It is found in primary and secondary forest where it feeds on insects, beetles, spiders and other arthropods. It also eats berries, small fruits and seeds.

Comparing the males in photos 1 and 2 with the female in photo 3 one has to assume that the species got its English and specific name from the female. Photo 4 shows an immature bird.

It has a variety of vocalisations and one that appears to be territorial is a series of monotonous notes.

Female Chestnut Wattle-eye, Kalakpa, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

Immature Chestnut Wattle-eye, Aboabo Forest, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

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