African Grey Flycatcher? (1 Viewer)

[THE_FERN]

Let me reopen this can of worms, please. Also, any new contributors, maybe?

All three side by side:

https://faansiepeacock.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Flycatchers-1024x747.jpg

(from LBJs Book - faansiepeacock.com)

This is in opposition to 2 of the previous references... They were suggesting the dark lores of ashy flycatcher were not as marked as the tit flycatcher's. So unless it's a subspecies thing, confusion reigns. 2/4 refs say ashy darker, 2/4 say the opposite (counting both fanshawe eds).

Fwiw I still think the photo is ashy and this latest image reinforces that. It doesn't look "delicate" to me. Anyway it's not what it was labelled as

 

[01101001]

@volker sthamer I'm not sure if you're aware of this discussion, as it's been a while.

 

[Brian J Small]

Ashy Flycatcher

 

[Butty]

. . . because. . . ?

 

[Valéry Schollaert]

Shape is wrong for Grey-Tit Flycatcher ("Lead-coloured") ; black bill, clear moustache, African Grey Flycatcher was correct for me at first sight. I'm though interested to know which features is used by Brian to conclude it is an Ashy,

 

[Brian J Small]

African Grey - ML615927105 - African Gray Flycatcher - Macaulay Library - with broad and ill-defined super, sandy grey colour
Ashy - ML615082395 - Ashy Flycatcher - Macaulay Library - lead grey, with white supra-loral srtipe and eye crescents

Don't be taken in by the mess of images on eBird, that have both mixed together, plus the odd Spotted Fly and African Dusky thrown in