Myiagra longicauda The African blue flycatcher or blue-crested flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) is a species of bird in the family Stenostiridae from western and central Sub-Saharan Africa.

Juveniles are duller with faint greyish spotting on the head and wing coverts.

[4] The song of the African blue flycatcher is a series of slow, rather random and tuneless sibilant notes strung together in no particular order.

[3] The African blue flycatcher occurs from Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia east discontinuously to Kenya and south through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to northern Angola.

[3][4] The African blue flycatcher forages rather gracefully with a fanned tail and half open wings among leaves, as well as occasionally foraging on the ground and flycatching.