Chestnut-capped Flycatcher (Erythrocercus mccallii)

Other Names (World)
Chestnut-capped Flycatcher, Chestnut-cap Flycatcher

Family
Scotocercidae (Bush-warblers)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1855)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

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

Chestnut-capped Flycatcher (Erythrocercus mccallii) [XC605760]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Mbendjele Baka Forest, Congo (Brazzaville) (song)

Chestnut-capped Flycatcher (Erythrocercus mccallii) [XC719122]
by Martin St-Michel from Bobiri Butterfly Reserve, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Little Yellow Flycatcher (Erythrocercus holochlorus) and Livingstone's Flycatcher (Erythrocercus livingstonei).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

nigeriae Bannerman, 1920 - South-western Mali and north-eastern and southern Guinea east to SWGhana, southern Benin and south-western Nigeria.
mccallii (Cassin, 1855) - South-eastern Nigeria east to south-western Central African Republic, south to Gabon, PRCongo and north-western Angola (Cabinda), also central DRCongo.
congicus Ogilvie-Grant, 1907 - Eastern DRCongo to western Uganda.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Chestnut-capped Flycatcher (Erythrocercus mccallii) - 10 files

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