Bates's Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone batesi)
About the Bates's Paradise Flycatcher
Bates's paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone batesi) is a passerine bird belonging to the monarch-flycatcher family, Monarchidae. The sexes are similar in appearance with the upper parts being rufous and the head and underparts being bluish-grey. It is native to central Africa where it is found in the understorey of forests. Its name commemorates the American ornithologist George Latimer Bates. Bates's paradise flycatcher was formerly considered as a subspecies of the rufous-vented paradise flycatcher but is now recognized as a separate species. An alternate name is the Cameroon rufous-vented paradise-flycatcher. There are two subspecies recognized: T. b. batesi – Chapin, 1921: Found from southern Cameroon and Gabon to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
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Listed as recorded in Cameroon in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Blyth's Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone affinisrecording
- Mascarene Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone bourbonnensisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.