Chapin's flycatcher (Fraseria lendu) is a bird species in the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae). It is native to the Albertine Rift montane forests. The Itombwe flycatcher was formerly considered conspecific.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Fraseria |
| Species: | F. lendu
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| Fraseria lendu (Chapin, 1932)
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Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The common name commemorates the American ornithologist James Paul Chapin.[2]
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Muscicapa lendu". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 81.
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