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Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Melaenornis

Northern Black Flycatcher

Melaenornis edolioides

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (nobfly1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Melaenornis

Subspecies (3)

Melaenornis edolioides edolioides

savanna of Senegambia to Mali, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon
Melaenornis edolioides lugubris

eastern Cameroon to western Ethiopia, northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, and Tanzania
Melaenornis edolioides schistaceus

Eritrea and eastern Ethiopia to northern Kenya (Moyale)

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (nobfly1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.