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Senegal Batis (Batis senegalensis)

Senegal Batis
Photo: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Senegal Batis

The Senegal batis (Batis senegalensis) is a species of small passerine bird in the wattle-eyes family, Platysteiridae. It occurs in western Africa where it is found in dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It was originally given the binomial name Muscicapa senegalensis by Carl Linnaeus in 1766.

Source: Senegal batis on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 23 recordings for this species: 8 CC BY-NC-ND · 3 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 Ghana, Senegal in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.