Chestnut Wattle-eye
Platysteira castanea (Fraser, 1843)
Platysteiridae — Wattle-eyes, Batises
Chestnut Wattle-eye, Platysteira castanea, is a bird of Central Africa, with a breeding range from Nigeria to southern Sudan, western Kenya and northern Zambia. It belongs to the family Platysteiridae and was described by Fraser in 1843. It is associated with moist lowland forest, swamps and moist savanna, and it is also often recorded on cocoa farms.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Platysteiridae — Wattle-eyes, Batises
- Breeding range
- Africa: Nigeria to s Sudan, w Kenya and n Zambia
