Pale Flycatcher (Agricola pallidus) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

WoodlandCup nestSmall · 24 g

Pale Flycatcher (Agricola pallidus), photo 6 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Pale Flycatcher (Agricola pallidus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) i_c_riddell, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pale Flycatcher (Agricola pallidus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Stefan Haag, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pale Flycatcher (Agricola pallidus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pale Flycatcher (Agricola pallidus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Bruno - Yolande Zanette, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Pale 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 Pale Flycatcher

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 34 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Sierra Leone, Togo.

About the Pale Flycatcher

The pale flycatcher is a passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, native to Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Easily confused with

Chat FlycatcherAgricola infuscatusThe chat flycatcher is an earthy light reddish-brown in colour and has large, pale wing edges.

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