Collared Flycatcher

What the Collared Flycatcher sounds like

Recorded by Jochem Verweij · Alarm call, call, song · Mörbylånga Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Jochem verweij · Mörbylånga Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Jochem verweij · Alarm call, call, song · Mörbylånga Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Collared Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 4 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is June, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Collared Flycatcher

The map shades 57 countries with regular records, and 10 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium, Norway, Botswana, Tanzania, Benin, Mozambique, Luxembourg.

About the Collared Flycatcher

The collared flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers. It breeds in southeast Europe and Eastern France to the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine and is migratory, wintering in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is a rare vagrant in western Europe.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Red-breasted FlycatcherFicedula parvaAt 11–12 cm long, this is a relatively small flycatcher, only slightly larger than the Eurasian wren. Taiga FlycatcherFicedula albicillaThe taiga flycatcher or red-throated flycatcher is a migratory bird in the family Muscicapidae. Little Pied FlycatcherFicedula westermanniThe little pied flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.