Small, insectivorous, largely arboreal passerines.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Terpsiphone = delightful voice
Melaenornis = black bird
Muscicapa = fly catcher
Sigelus = mute or silent

Active, flycatchers of the mid-stratum of forest and most savanna. They are generally slim with long tails and broad bills. They typically forage by flitting agitatedly with fanned tail and drooped wings.
They are monogamous and their nest is a small delicate cup of fibrous plant material. A clutch is usually 2 - 3 pale eggs speckled with red, brown and grey. Incubation and care of young is done by both sexes.

The appearance of these small birds is very varied, but they mostly have weak songs and harsh calls. They perch quietly, hawking, gleaning or dropping to the ground to snatch up insects. Usually they take their prey back to the perch to be consumed.
They are monogamous, their nest is a cup of tendrils, rootless lesf petioles etc., usually placed high on lateral branch, crevice or tree hole. A clutch consists of 2 - 3 speckled, clouded eggs incubated by female alone. Both sexes take care of the young. Several species can be targeted by Diderick-, Klaas- and red-crested cuckoos.

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