White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

What the White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher sounds like

Recorded by Frank shirima · Call · Arusha, Arusha Urban, Arusha Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Anne Ndung'u · Call · Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Anne Ndung'u · Call · Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

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

Where to see the White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

The map shades 8 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

The white-eyed slaty flycatcher is a small passerine bird of the genus Melaenornis in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is native to the African highlands from Ethiopia and Kenya through Rwanda to eastern Zaire and Malawi. The sub-species M. f. toruensis occurs in Rwanda and Burundi and has an inconspicuous eye-ring.

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Easily confused with

Northern Black FlycatcherMelaenornis edolioidesThe northern black flycatcher is 20 centimetres (7.9 in) long. 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.