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Alternative names: Pallid Flycatcher or locally Mouse-coloured Flycatcher
- Agricola pallidus
Identification
Distribution
Sub-Saharan Africa
Taxonomy
An Old World flycatcher in the Muscicapidae Family (von Müller, 1851).
It's sometimes placed in the genus Melaenornis or in Bradornis.
Agricola pallidus has 13 subspecies:[1]
- A. p. pallidus
- Senegambia to South Sudan and western Ethiopia; also northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, possibly this subspecies (or parvus?)
- A. p. parvus
- Eastern South Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, and northwestern Uganda
- A. p. bowdleri
- Eritrea to central Ethiopia
- A. p. bafirawari
- A. p. duyerali
- A. p. subalaris
- A. p. erlangeri
- Southern Somalia (Bardera and Serenli to Hanole)
- A. p. modestus
- Guinea to south-eastern Mali and Central African Republic
- A. p. murinus
- A. p. aquaemontis
- Central Namibia (Waterberg Plateau)
- A. p. griseus
- A. p. divisus
- South-eastern Zambia to Mozambique, northern South Africa and north-eastern eSwatini
- A. p. sibilans
- Mozambique (south of Sul do Save) to northern KwaZulu-Natal
Habitat
Forest - subtropical/tropical dry; savanna - dry; shrubland - subtropical/tropical dry.
Behaviour
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Pale Flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 6 October 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pale_Flycatcher
External Links
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