''Platysteira'' is a genus of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
in the family
Platysteiridae
Platysteiridae is a family of small, stout passerine birds of the African tropics. The family contains the wattle-eyes, batises and shrike-flycatchers. They were previously classed as a subfamily of the Old World flycatchers, Muscicapidae. These ...
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It contains the following species:
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Black-throated wattle-eye
The black-throated wattle-eye (''Platysteira peltata'') is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae.
It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, ...
, ''Platysteira peltata''
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Black-necked wattle-eye
The black-necked wattle-eye (''Platysteira chalybea'') is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtr ...
, ''Platysteira chalybea''
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Banded wattle-eye, ''Platysteira laticincta''
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Chestnut wattle-eye, ''Platysteira castanea''
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West African wattle-eye, ''Platysteira hormophora''
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Brown-throated wattle-eye
The brown-throated wattle-eye (''Platysteira cyanea''), also known as the common wattle-eye or scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye, is a small, insectivorous passerine bird. The wattle-eyes were previously classed as a subfamily of the Old World flyca ...
, ''Platysteira cyanea''
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Jameson's wattle-eye
Jameson's wattle-eye (''Platysteira jamesoni'') is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae.
It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lo ...
, ''Platysteira jamesoni''
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Red-cheeked wattle-eye
The red-cheeked wattle-eye (''Platysteira blissetti'') is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae.
It is found in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or trop ...
, ''Platysteira blissetti''
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White-fronted wattle-eye, ''Platysteira albifrons''
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White-spotted wattle-eye
The white-spotted wattle-eye (''Platysteira tonsa'') is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ga ...
, ''Platysteira tonsa''
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Yellow-bellied wattle-eye, ''Platysteira concreta''
Platysteiridae
Bird genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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