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Banded wattle-eye
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Platysteiridae
Genus:	Platysteira
Species:	P. laticincta
Binomial name
Platysteira laticincta Bates, 1926

The banded wattle-eye (Platysteira laticincta) is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae. It is endemic to the Bamenda Highlands in western Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. In particular, it likely prefers low-altitude forests with more bare ground and denser undergrowth cover.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Platysteira laticincta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22707929A94142605. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22707929A94142605.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. A., Valery Binda; Mayaka, Theodore B. (January 2019). "Occupancy and Conservation Prospects of Endemic Banded Wattle-Eye Platysteira laticincta in the Kilum–Ijim Community Forest, Northwestern Cameroon". Tropical Conservation Science. 12: 194008291988288. doi:10.1177/1940082919882884. ISSN 1940-0829.

External links

• BirdLife Species Factsheet.

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• IUCN Red List endangered species
• Platysteira
• Endemic birds of Cameroon
• Western Afromontane endemic bird species
• Birds described in 1926
• Taxa named by George Latimer Bates
• Fauna of the Cameroonian Highlands forests
• Corvoidea stubs