Male © Kathleen Keef
Female © Sam Woods
Female © Nigel Voaden
Male © Alen Lin
+ 3
Female © Olivier Langrand
Male © Peter Kaestner

Madagaskarska rajska muharica Terpsiphone mutata

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Identification

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Adult males have extremely long tail streamers, and can show mainly rufous, white, or black-and-white plumage. Female is rufous and lacks tail streamers. Both sexes have a blue ring around the eye. Found in all forest types and in adjacent plantations and scrub. Restless, active mid-story bird that sometimes joins mixed feeding flocks. Call is a tearing “shree-shreeet”, and song a long, musical series of “twee” notes. Black-and-white males larger and longer-tailed than Ward’s Flycatcher, without a black chest band. Rufous coloration, blue eye ring, and upright posture identify female.

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