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ShrublandCup nestTiny · 6 g
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The fairy flycatcher is 11–12 cm in length. The adult is pale grey above with a black mask through the eye and a white supercilium. The wings are black with a long white stripe, and the long black tail has white sides. The throat is white, the breast is pale grey, and the belly is white with a pinkish-grey wash to its centre. The sexes are alike, but the juvenile is browner than the adult. The eye is brown and the bill and legs are black.
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When to see the Fairy Flycatcher
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Fairy Flycatcher
The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Fairy Flycatcher
The fairy flycatcher or fairy warbler is a small passerine bird. Formerly placed in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae, it is now separated with some other "odd flycatchers" as the new family Stenostiridae. It is the only member of the genus Stenostira.
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Easily confused with
Yellow-bellied FantailChelidorhynx hypoxanthusIt is about 8 cm (3.1 in) in size.
African Blue FlycatcherElminia longicaudaThe African blue flycatcher is a dainty, pale, bright blue flycatcher with a short crest and long tail.
White-tailed Blue FlycatcherElminia albicaudaThe white-tailed blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Stenostiridae.
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