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Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Myrmecocichla

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Myrmecocichla aethiops

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (noacha1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Myrmecocichla

Subspecies (3)

Myrmecocichla aethiops aethiops

Senegambia to Chad, northern Nigeria, and northern Cameroon
Myrmecocichla aethiops cryptoleuca

highlands of northern Kenya to northern Tanzania
Myrmecocichla aethiops sudanensis

western Sudan (Darfur and Kordofan)

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (noacha1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.