The grey tit-flycatcher (Fraseria plumbea) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It has an extensive but patchy distribution in sub-Saharan Africa.

Grey tit-flycatcher
Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Fraseria
Species:
F. plumbea
Binomial name
Fraseria plumbea
(Hartlaub, 1858)

Range and habitat edit

 
The tail is often flicked and fanned.

It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast,Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

References edit

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Myioparus plumbeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

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