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Sao Tome Shorttail
Motacilla bocagii (Sharpe, 1892)
Motacillidae — Wagtails, Pipits
Sao Tome Shorttail, Motacilla bocagii, is a passerine bird of the family Motacillidae that breeds on São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea. It is confined to the central and southern parts of the island, where it occurs in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. The bird was once treated as the only species in Amaurocichla, but a 2015 study placed it with the wagtails in Motacilla. It is also known as Bocage's longbill.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Motacillidae — Wagtails, Pipits
- Breeding range
- Africa: São Tomé (sc Gulf of Guinea Is.)
