African Paradise Flycatcher

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Monarchidae

Genus

Terpsiphone

eBird Code

afpfly1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (10)

• Terpsiphone viridis ferreti

  Mali and Ivory Coast to northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Kenya, and Tanzania

• Terpsiphone viridis granti

  KwaZulu-Natal to southwestern Cape Province; winters to southern Tanzania

• Terpsiphone viridis harterti

  southern Arabian peninsula

• Terpsiphone viridis kivuensis

  southwestern Uganda to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and northwestern Tanzania

• Terpsiphone viridis plumbeiceps

  southern Angola to western Democratic Republic of the Congo, southwestern Tanzania, and northeastern South Africa

• Terpsiphone viridis restricta

  Lake Victoria region of western Kenya and Uganda

• Terpsiphone viridis speciosa

  southern Cameroon southward to northeastern Angola, eastward to Democratic Republic of the Congo and southwestern South Sudan

• Terpsiphone viridis suahelica

  highlands of western Kenya and Tanzania

• Terpsiphone viridis ungujaensis

  eastern Tanzania to Zambia; Zanzibar, Pemba Island, and Mafia Island

• Terpsiphone viridis viridis

  Senegal and Gambia to Sierra Leone