Angola-Batiss

Bestimmung

The Angola batis is a small pied songbird with a rather dumpy appearance and a restless nature. The adult males have a bluish grey forehead and crown with a small white spot on the lores and a glossy black mask across the eyes, extending on to the nape and down the sides of the neck with a white spot on the nape. It has a grey mantle, blackish scapulars with the back, rump and uppertail covers being blackish grey with white spots. The wings have black flight feathers with narrow white edges. There is a white wing stripe. The trail is black with white outer tail feathers. The underparts are white except for a black band across the breast and the greyish undertail coverts. The eyes are bright yellow while the bill and legs are black. The female is similar to the male but her breast band is chestnut rather than black. They are about 10 cm (3.9 in) long and weigh 10.4 g (0.37 oz).<p>The calls of the Angola batis are little known, the territorial call is a series of high-pitched notes, "zee-zee-zee-zee-zee", which has been likened to a squeaky bicycle pump.

Taxonomie

Wissenschaftlicher Name

Batis minulla

Autorität

(Barboza du Bocage, 1874)

Ordnung

Passeriformes

Familie

Schmuckwürger (Fam. Platysteiridae)

Gattung

Batis

Verbreitung und Lebensraum

The presence of the Angola batis in south eastern Gabon is yet to be confirmed but the species occurs in the southern Congo through western Democratic Republic of Congo into northern Angola south to the Quiçama National Park, 70 km (43 mi) from Luanda.

Zugverhalten

Resident species

Schutzstatus

Bestandstrend

stable