The northern black flycatcher (Melaenornis edolioides) is a resident breeder in tropical Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Zaire and Tanzania. Found in moist wooded areas and cultivation, it nests in a hole or reuses the old nest of another species, and lays two or three eggs. The long square-ended tail helps to distinguish this species from two other all-black insectivores, the fork-tailed drongo and the shorter-tailed and red-eyed common square-tailed drongo.
