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 LC    Gambaga Flycatcher* Id (Atlas):
    Muscicapa gambagae

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Gambaga Flycatcher, Gambaga Spotted Flycatcher, Gambaga Dusky Flycatcher

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Alexander, 1901)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest and shrubland, dry savanna. From 800 - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Cameroon (B), Central African Republic (B), Chad (B), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire (B), Djibouti, Ethiopia (B), Ghana (B), Guinea (B), Kenya, Liberia, Mali (B), Nigeria (B), Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan (B), Togo, Uganda, Yemen.

Vagrant to Burkina Faso.

Patchily Liberia (Yekepa/Nimba), central Mali (southern Gourma, Dogon Plateau), north-eastern Ivory Coast, northern Ghana, northern Togo, central and eastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, southern Chad, western and southern Sudan, western Ethiopia (Bonga, Welkite, Arsi Neghelli), north-western Somalia (Mt Wagar), extreme north-eastern DRCongo (Aba, Dramba), Uganda (Budongo, Gula, Labwor), Kenya, and south-western Arabia (Hejaz south to Aden).
 
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 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)...)

 
Gambaga Flycatcher (Muscicapa gambagae) [XC445361]
     by Oscar Campbell from Ainamoj area, Kerio Valley, Kenya (song)

 
Gambaga Flycatcher (Muscicapa gambagae) [XC536415]
     by James Bradley from upper Kongelai Escarpment, West Pokot County, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata), and sometimes regarded as conspecific.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Gambaga Flycatcher (Muscicapa gambagae) - 10 files


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