Pririt Batis (Batis pririt)
About the Pririt Batis
The pririt batis (Batis pririt) also known as the pririt puff-back flycatcher or pririt puffback, is a small passerine bird in the wattle-eye family. It is resident in Southern Africa and southwestern Angola. It is a small stout insect-eating bird, found in dry broadleaf woodland and thorn scrub. The nest is a small neat cup low in a tree or bush. The pririt batis is strikingly patterned. The adult male has a dark grey crown and back, black eye mask and white throat. It has a black rump and tail, and its wing are black with white edging to the flight feathers and a long white shoulder patch. The underparts are white with a broad black breast band and black speckles on the flanks. The female and juvenile plumages differ in that there is no black breast band, but the throat and breast are a warm buff colour.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 70 recordings for this species: 2 CC BY-NC-SA. 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.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa 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.