Habitat
Forest belts, mainly on mountain slopes, occupied by mature deciduous trees, temperate riverine and swamp forests, old or abandoned orchards, groves and tree plantations, urban parks and large gardens or forested peripheral parts of towns, villages and industrial sites. From sea-level - 2,000 m.
Albania (B), Armenia (B), Azerbaijan (B), Bahrain (P), Bulgaria (B), Burundi (NB), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (NB), Cyprus (P), Egypt (P), Eritrea (P), Ethiopia (P), Georgia (B), Greece (B), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (P), Israel (P), Jordan (P), Kenya (NB), Kuwait (P), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Oman (P), Qatar, Russia (European) (B), Rwanda (NB), Saudi Arabia (P), Sudan (NB), Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania [United Republic of] (NB), Tunisia, Turkey (B), Uganda (NB), United Arab Emirates (P).
Vagrant to Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska), France, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Somalia.
Unknown to Ghana, Nigeria.
Breeds Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and from Caucasus and Transcaucasus south to northern and north-western Iran. Non-breeding east-central Africa (extreme southern Sudan south to western Tanzania).
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 40,000 - 210,000 (2010) and decreasing.
Status LC
Habitat destruction, including lowland oak beening overexploited for timber, riparian forests cleared for riverbed corrections, is the main threat.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Semicollared Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata) [XC648056]
by Kuzey Cem Kula\u00e7o\u011flu from Tiebelm\u00fcndung, Steindorf am Ossiacher See, Feldkirchen, K\u00e4rnten, Austria (call, song)
Semicollared Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata) [XC740741]
by Joost Woltering from Kelardasht, Mazandaran Province, Iran (call, song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Sometimes placed in genus Muscicapa. Often regarded as conspecific with Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) but differences in ecology and morphology suggest that treatment as separate species is more appropriate, although this still under debate.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet