Monarch Flycatchers
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Monarchidae
The monarch flycatchers are small to medium-sized insectivorous passerines, which hunt by flycatching. There are 99 species worldwide and 5 species which occur in Benin.
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- African Blue-Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Blue-headed Crested-Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- African Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Benin
Famous quotes containing the word monarch:
“A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)