Southern Black Flycatcher
Melaenornis pammelaina (Stanley, 1814)
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Southern Black Flycatcher, Melaenornis pammelaina, breeds in eastern and southern Africa and is found in open country and light woodland. It is a passerine in the Muscicapidae family, first described by Stanley in 1814. The bird is entirely black, including the bill and legs, with a brown iris and a square-ended tail. Those features help separate it from the fork-tailed drongo, which has a red iris and a forked tail. It also occurs along river edges, in gardens and near plantations.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Africa: e, s
