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The northern black flycatcher is 20 centimetres (7.9 in) long. It is a large upright long-tailed flycatcher. The adult is uniformly black. Juveniles are blackish-brown with buff scaling. 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. Voice: This flycatcher has a simple musical song and a thin tsee-whee call.
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When to see the Northern Black 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 Northern Black Flycatcher
The map shades 21 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Northern Black Flycatcher
The northern black flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.
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Easily confused with
White-eyed Slaty FlycatcherMelaenornis fischeriThe white-eyed slaty flycatcher is a small passerine bird of the genus Melaenornis in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
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.
Yellow-eyed Black FlycatcherMelaenornis ardesiacusThe chin, lores and forehead are blackish, the rest of the plumage is a deep blue-grey.
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