List of Birds of Senegal - Monarch Flycatchers

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 3 species which occur in Senegal.

  • African Blue-Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
  • Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
  • African Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis

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