Species profile
Chestnut Wattle-eye
Platysteira castanea
Quick answer
Benin and southwestern Nigeria east to southeastern Sudan, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania, and south to northwestern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northwestern Zambia
- Scientific name
- Platysteira castanea
- Family
- Platysteiridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Platysteira
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