Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher

Trochocercus cyanomelas

IUCN: Not Evaluated

Taxonomy

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Monarchidae
Genus
Trochocercus
eBird Code
afcfly1

Vocalizations

Mahomed Desai · CC_BY_4_0
Christiaan Viljoen · CC_BY_4_0
Ryan van Huyssteen · CC_BY_4_0

Subspecies (5)

  • Trochocercus cyanomelas bivittatus

    southern Somalia to Kenya and eastern Tanzania (including Zanzibar)

  • Trochocercus cyanomelas cyanomelas

    coastal southern South Africa (west to Western Cape)

  • Trochocercus cyanomelas megalolophus

    Malawi and northern Mozambique to Zimbabwe and northeastern South Africa (eastern KwaZulu-Natal)

  • Trochocercus cyanomelas segregus

    northeastern South Africa (eastern North West to western KwaZulu-Natal)

  • Trochocercus cyanomelas vivax

    Uganda and western Tanzania to southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.