List of Birds of Rwanda - 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 6 species which occur in Rwanda.

  • African Blue-Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
  • White-tailed Blue-Flycatcher Elminia albicauda
  • White-bellied Crested-Flycatcher Elminia albiventris
  • White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher Elminia albonotata
  • African Crested-Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas
  • African Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis

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    There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)