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Northern Black Flycatcher The Northern Black Flycatcher, Melaenornis edolioides, is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. This is an insectivorous species which is a resident breeder in tropical Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Zaire and Tanzania. The Northern Black Flycatcher is found in moist wooded areas and cultivation. It nests in a hole, or reuses the old nest of another species, and lays two or three eggs. Breeding takes place in the wet season. The Northern Black Flycatcher is 20cm long. It is a large upright long-tailed flycatcher. The adult is uniformly black. Juveniles are blackish-brown with buff scaling. The long square-ended tail helps to distinguish this species from two other all-black insectivores, the Fork-tailed Drongo and the shorter-tailed and red-eyed Square-tailed Drongo. This flycatcher has a simple musical song, and a thin tsee-whee call. Reference - Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1
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