White-tailed Crested Flycatcher

When to see the White-tailed Crested 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 White-tailed Crested Flycatcher

The map shades 10 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 South Africa.

About the White-tailed Crested Flycatcher

The white-tailed crested flycatcher is a species of bird in the flycatcher family Stenostiridae. It has a discontinuous distribution in eastern Africa. There are three subspecies, E. a. albonotata of central Kenya, and Uganda through to south west Tanzania; E. a. subvaerulea, which ranges from southern Kenya to Malawi and E. a. swynnertoni of Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

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Easily confused with

White-tailed Blue FlycatcherElminia albicaudaThe white-tailed blue flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Stenostiridae. White-bellied Crested FlycatcherElminia albiventrisThe white-bellied crested flycatcher is a bird species in the family Stenostiridae; it was formerly placed with the drongos in the Dicruridae. Dusky Crested FlycatcherElminia nigromitrataThe dusky crested flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Stenostiridae.