Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush (Stizorhina fraseri)

Other Scientific Names
Neocossyphus fraseri [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)]

Other Names (World)
Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush, Rufous Thrush, Rufous Flycatcher, Fraser's Rusty Flycatcher, Fraser's Rufous Thrush

Family
Turdidae (Thrushes)

Size
18 - 20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Strickland, 1844)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Cote dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (71)...)

Fraser's Rufous Thrush (Stizorhina fraseri) [XC836352]
by Brendan Sloan from Semuliki Forest NP, Uganda (song)

Fraser's Rufous Thrush (Stizorhina fraseri) [XC823480]
by Josh Engel from Lompole, Bandundu, Mai-Ndombe, Congo (Democratic Republic) (song)

Subspecies
Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush (Stizorhina fraseri) and Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush (Stizorhina finschii) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped as fraseri and moved from genus Neocossyphus to the genus Stizorhina following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Some authors consider Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush (Stizorhina finschii) to be a subspecies of Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush (Stizorhina fraseri).

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

fraseri (Strickland, 1844) - Bioko I (Fernando P�o).
rubicunda (Hartlaub, 1860) - South-eastern Nigeria east to northern DRCongo, south to Angola and north-western Zambia.
vulpina Reichenow, 1902 - South-western South Sudan, north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda.
finschii (Sharpe, 1870) - Lowlands of Sierra Leone and Liberia to Ghana and southern Nigeria. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush (Stizorhina finschii).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush (Stizorhina fraseri) - 10 files

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