Kingdom Animalia Genus Bias
Lesson, 1831 Phylum Chordata Rank Species | Family Platysteiridae Scientific name Bias musicus Higher classification Bias Order Passerine | |
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Similar Wattle‑eye, Batis, Brown‑throated wattle‑eye, Passerine, Black‑throated wattle‑eye | ||
The black-and-white shrike-flycatcher (Bias musicus), also known as the black-and-white flycatcher or vanga flycatcher, is a species of passerine bird found in Africa. It is often placed with the wattle-eyes and batises in the family Platysteiridae but may be more closely related to the helmetshrikes and woodshrikes.
It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.