- Pririt Batis
Taxobox
name = Pririt Batis
image caption = Waterberg Plateau, Namibia - Jul, 2004
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia = Platysteiridae
genus = "Batis"
species = "B. pririt"
binomial = "Batis pririt "
binomial_authority = (Vieillot, 1818) The Pririt Batis, "Batis pririt", also known as the "Pririt Puff-back Flycatcher" or "Pririt Puffback", is a smallpasserine bird in thewattle-eye family. It is resident in western and central southernAfrica .It is a small stout insect-eating bird, found in dry broadleaf woodland and thorn scrub. The nest is a small neat cup low in a tree or bush.
The Pririt Batis is strikingly patterned. The adult male has a dark grey crown and back, black eye mask and white throat. It has a black rump and tail, and its wing are black with white edging to the flight feathers and a long white shoulder patch. The underparts are white with a broad black breast band and black speckles on the flanks. The female and juvenile plumages differ in that there is no black breast band, but the throat and breast are a warm buff colour.
The Pririt Batis hunts by flycatching, or by taking prey from the ground like a
shrike . The song is typically a slow descending series of whistled notes, "teuu, teuu, teuu, teuu".References
* Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, "SASOL Birds of Southern Africa" (Struik 2002) ISBN 1-86872-721-1
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