Nimba Flycatcher

When to see the Nimba Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Nimba Flycatcher

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Guinea.

About the Nimba Flycatcher

The Nimba flycatcher is a small passerine bird of the genus Melaenornis in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is native to the West African countries of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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Easily confused with

Angola Slaty FlycatcherMelaenornis brunneusThe Angola slaty flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. Yellow-eyed Black FlycatcherMelaenornis ardesiacusThe chin, lores and forehead are blackish, the rest of the plumage is a deep blue-grey. Abyssinian Slaty FlycatcherMelaenornis chocolatinusThe Abyssinian slaty flycatcher is a rather dingy, undistinguished grey brown bird which normally perches with the typical vertical posture of an Old World flycatcher.