Grey tit-flycatcher | |
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Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Muscicapidae |
Genus: | Fraseria |
Species: | F. plumbea |
Binomial name | |
Fraseria plumbea (Hartlaub, 1858) | |
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Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
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