Forest Batis (Batis mixta)
About the Forest Batis
The forest batis or short-tailed batis (Batis mixta) is a species of bird in the wattle-eye family, Platysteiridae occurring in eastern Africa. The forest batis was formally described and illustrated by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley in 1889 and given the binomial name Pachypora mixta. It is now one of 20 species placed in the genus Batis that was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1833. The specific epithet mixta is Latin for "mixed" or "mingled". Two subspecies are recognised: B. m. mixta (Shelley, 1889) – southeast Kenya to northeast Tanzania B. m. reichenowi Grote, 1911 – southeast Tanzania
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 44 recordings for this species: 18 CC BY-NC-SA · 5 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Kenya, Tanzania in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Chinspot BatisBatis molitorrecording
- Eastern Black-headed BatisBatis minorrecording
- Pygmy BatisBatis perkeorecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.