Fraser's Forest Flycatcher (Fraseria ocreata) | Photos, Calls and ID

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ForestCavity nestSmall · 36 g

Fraser's Forest Flycatcher (Fraseria ocreata), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Fraser's Forest Flycatcher (Fraseria ocreata), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Rafael Würtemberger, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Fraser's Forest Flycatcher (Fraseria ocreata), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Rafael Würtemberger, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Fraser's Forest Flycatcher (Fraseria ocreata), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

What the Fraser's Forest Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Fraser's Forest Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Ben Phalan · Alarm call · Cavalla River, Grand Gedeh, Liberia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Fraser's Forest Flycatcher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Fraser's Forest Flycatcher

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 2 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.

Ghana Uganda Côte d’Ivoire Gabon Congo - Kinshasa Congo - Brazzaville Cameroon Equatorial Guinea Liberia Sierra Leone Central African Republic Nigeria

Recorded as a rare visitor in Benin, Guinea.

About the Fraser's Forest Flycatcher

Fraser's forest flycatcher, also known as the African forest-flycatcher, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found throughout the intra-tropical rainforest of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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

Easily confused with

Grey-throated Tit-FlycatcherFraseria griseigularisThe grey-throated tit-flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Chapin's FlycatcherFraseria lenduChapin's flycatcher is a bird species in the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae).

White-browed Forest FlycatcherFraseria cinerascensThe white-browed forest flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.

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