Scientific name: Chrysococcyx klaas
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Males have a glossy green body with few markings and plain white underparts. Females have a bronze-brown body, greenish wing coverts and faintly barred white underparts. Viewed in flight, the male is largely white with dark primaries and females appear mostly brown. Males and females both have a small white post-ocular patch.
Fairly common across sub-Saharan Africa, absent only from arid desert. In southern Africa it is fairly common in central and northern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and southern and eastern South Africa. It generally prefers open broad-leaved woodland, especially miombo (Brachystegia) and Mopane (Colosphermum mopane) woodland, but it also occupies dense Acacia thickets, forest edges, gardens and alien tree stands around farmsteads.
Mainly insectivorous, specializing in butterflies and caterpillars. It usually forages in the foliage of trees or bushes, taking insects from leaves and occasionally hawking a flying insect.
