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Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher
Trochocercus nitens Cassin, 1859
Monarchidae — Monarchs
Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher, Trochocercus nitens, is a bird of the Monarchidae family found in western and central Africa. It lives in African tropical forest and is known from two recognised forms. One occurs from Guinea to Togo, while the other ranges from Nigeria to southern Sudan, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and north-western Angola. The species was described by Cassin in 1859. It has also been placed in the genus Terpsiphone, and it is sometimes called the blue-headed flycatcher or blue-headed paradise-flycatcher.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Monarchidae — Monarchs
- Breeding range
- Africa: w, c
