Black-necked Wattle-eye
Platysteira chalybea (Reichenow, 1897)
Platysteiridae — Wattle-eyes, Batises
Black-necked Wattle-eye, Platysteira chalybea, is a bird of the Platysteiridae family that breeds in central Africa from Cameroon and the Central African Republic through Gabon and Congo to west-central Angola. It is placed in the passerine order and was described by Reichenow in 1897. Its range includes forested country, with subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, swamps, and moist montane forest among its habitats.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Platysteiridae — Wattle-eyes, Batises
- Breeding range
- Africa: c Cameroon and Central African Republic to Gabon and Congo and wc Angola
