African paradise flycatcher
terpsiphone viridis latin

The African Paradise Flycatcher is a noisy bird with a harsh scolding call.

The adult male African Paradise Flycatcher is about 17 cm long, but the very long tail streamers double this.

Several subspecies of the African Paradise Flycatcher are apparently intra-African migrants, but little is known about these movements.

The African Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis) is a medium-sized passerine bird.

The African Paradise Flycatcher is a common resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

African Paradise Flycatcher - Terpsiphone viridis (Statius Müller, 1776)

The Malagasy Paradise Flycatcher is thought to have evolved from African ancestors, as it appears to be more closely related to the African Paradise Flycatcher than the Asian Paradise Flycatcher.

The Asian Paradise Flycatcher is migratory over the northern parts of its range and sedentary in the tropics, and the African Paradise Flycatcher makes a series of poorly understood intra-African migratory movements.