Black birds
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Gray Neck Blackwing ( N. canicapilla ) |
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| Strickland , 1843 |
Black flies ( Nigrita ), also called mantle black flies , are a genus of the finch family .
Appearance
Blacklings are unusually plain colored birds within the fine finch family and also differ in their way of life from other fine finches such as the bronze male , the magpie and the sun astrild . In contrast to these, blackbirds live in forests and feed mainly on insects and fruits. Within this family, they are related to the ant-pickers and the titmouse .
The beak of the Schwarzlinge is short and slender with a round upper beak that becomes a little flatter and wider in the region of the nostrils. The wings are more pointed, the control feathers are black. Two species of this genus have black and gray plumage, the third species is gray and maroon pinnate, the fourth brown and white with a black skull. The underside of the body is one color.
distribution
Blacklings are African finches. Its distribution area extends in West Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola and extends in an easterly direction via Zaire and Uganda to Kenya .
species
- Mantled Blackwing ( N. fusconotus )
- Bicolor black ( N. bicolor )
- Pale-forehead blackened ( N. luteifrons )
- Gray Neck Blackwing ( N. canicapilla )
literature
- Horst Bielfeld : The finch book. All species, their keeping, care and breeding. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8001-7327-1 .
- C. Hilary Fry and Stuart Keith (Eds.): The Birds of Africa - Volume VII. , Christopher Helm, London 2004, ISBN 0-7136-6531-9
- Jürgen Nicolai (Ed.), Joachim Steinbacher (Ed.), Renate van den Elzen, Gerhard Hofmann, Claudia Mettke-Hofmann: Prachtfinken - Afrika , Series Handbuch der Vogelpflege, Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8001- 4964-3
Single receipts
- ↑ Fry et al., P. 253
