Female © Vincent Wang
Immature © John Thompson
Female © S S Cheema
Male © Michael O'Brien

Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea

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Identification

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Small black-and-white bird with a bright red patch of bare skin above the eye. Males have a black breast band, and females a brown throat. Found in thick woodland, gallery forest, and mangroves. The song is usually given as a duet: a descending series of melancholy whistles from the male, and lower rasping notes from the female. Similar to Black-throated Wattle-eye, but shows a white slash on the wing, and the female has a brown rather than white throat. Separated from batises by the red wattle and, in females, by the brown throat.

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