Swamp Flycatcher (Muscicapa aquatica) [XC719303]
by Peter Boesman from Mole National Park, Ghana (call)
Swamp Flycatcher (Muscicapa aquatica) [XC822775]
by Peter Boesman from Kisumu Lake Victoria, Kenya (call, song)
Subspecies
Putative subspecies ruandae (described from Uganda) is slightly longer-winged than infulata but otherwise inseparable. More appropriately synonymized with infulata.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
aquatica Heuglin, 1864 - Extreme southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, southern and eastern Mali, south-eastern Burkina Faso, central and eastern Ivory Coast and central and eastern Ghana east to Nigeria (except southern and extreme north), northern Cameroon, southern Chad, northern Central African Republic, south-western Sudan and northern DRCongo (Ubangui).
infulata Hartlaub, 1881 - South-eastern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo (including R Lualaba from Kasongo to Mwanza), Uganda (except Karamoja), Rwanda, western Burundi, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet