Pale Flycatcher - BirdForum Opus

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Location: St. Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Alternative names: Pallid Flycatcher or locally Mouse-coloured Flycatcher

Bradornis pallidus

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 Agricola.

Bradornis pallidus has 13 subspecies:^[1]

• B. p. pallidus

• Senegambia to South Sudan and western Ethiopia; also northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, possibly this subspecies (or parvus?)

• B. p. parvus

• Eastern South Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, and northwestern Uganda

• B. p. bowdleri

• Eritrea to central Ethiopia

• B. p. bafirawari

• Southern Ethiopia and north-eastern Kenya

• B. p. duyerali

• North-eastern Ethiopia (Duyer Ali) to central Somalia (El Bur)

• B. p. subalaris

• Coastal eastern Kenya to north-eastern Tanzania

• B. p. erlangeri

• Southern Somalia (Bardera and Serenli to Hanole)

• B. p. modestus

• Guinea to south-eastern Mali and Central African Republic

• B. p. murinus

• Gabon, Congo, and Angola, east to southeastern South Sudan and western and southern Kenya, south to northeastern Namibia, northern Botswana, western and southern Zambia, and Zimbabwe

• B. p. aquaemontis

• Central Namibia (Waterberg Plateau)

• B. p. griseus

• South-eastern Kenya to central Tanzania, eastern Zambia, eastern Zimbabwe and northern Malawi

• B. p. divisus

• South-eastern Zambia to Mozambique, northern South Africa and north-eastern eSwatini

• B. p. sibilans

• Mozambique (south of Sul do Save) to northern KwaZulu-Natal

Habitat

Forest - subtropical/tropical dry; savanna - dry; shrubland - subtropical/tropical dry.

References

1. 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/

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2023) Pale Flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 17 August 2023 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pale_Flycatcher

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