Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher

Blue-mantled Crested FlycatcherThis flycatcher ranges across eastern and southern Africa. Males have a glossy blue-black crest, throat, and upper breast, with a white lower breast and belly; females have a shorter crest and a mottled gray-and-white breast.What does it look like?Adult males have a glossy blue-black head, crest, throat, and upper breast, a white lower breast and belly, gray back, and white wingbar. Females are less glossy, with a shorter crest and a throat and breast mottled gray and white.How does it live?This flycatcher ranges across eastern and southern Africa. Males have a glossy blue-black crest, throat, and upper breast, with a white lower breast and belly; females have a shorter crest and a mottled gray-and-white breast.It occupies forest understory, coastal thickets, and sand forest. Birds occur singly or in pairs and forage for small invertebrates, catching them on the wing or gleaning them from bark, leaves, and twigs.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.