Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher

When to see the Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher

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

Where to see the Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher

The map shades 7 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 Central African Republic.

About the Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher

The rufous-vented paradise flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. It is found from southern Cameroon to eastern and central Democratic Republic of the Congo and north-western Angola. This species readily hybridizes with the genetically similar African paradise flycatcher. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical swamps and shrub-dominated wetlands.

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Easily confused with

Seychelles Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone corvinaThe length of the males is about 20 cm. Bates's Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone batesiBates's paradise flycatcher is usually 18 centimetres long but males in parts of Cameroon and Angola have elongated central tail-feathers making them 23-28 centimetres long. Bedford's Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone bedfordiBedford's paradise flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae.