Pririt Batis

Batis pririt

The pririt batis also known as the pririt puff-back flycatcher or pririt puffback, is a small passerine bird in the wattle-eye family. It is resident in western and central southern Africa. 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.
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Appearance

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.
Pririt Batis - Focus and Speed This small bird (this specific one is a male) is lightning fast and agile.  It is very easy to miss or overlook this bird as it is neither striking in plumage, nor does it allow one to photograph it with ease.   Batis pririt,Geotagged,Namibia,Pririt batis,Spring,agile,avian,bird,black,bush,perched,plumage,quick,yellow

Behavior

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".

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyPlatysteiridae
GenusBatis
SpeciesB. pririt
Photographed in
Angola
Namibia