Dusky-blue Flycatcher (Bradornis comitatus)

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
11 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1857)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland 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, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

Dusky-blue Flycatcher (Muscicapa comitata) [XC719310]
by Peter Boesman from Ankasa NR, Ghana (call)

Dusky-blue Flycatcher (Muscicapa comitata) [XC456599]
by Peter Boesman from Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Eastern Region, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
Birds from Sudan and Uganda described as subspecies stuhlmani, but considered indistinguishable from nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

aximensis (Sclater, WL, 1924) - Sierra Leone, Liberia, south-eastern Guinea, southern Ivory Coast, southern Ghana, southern Togo and southern Nigeria.
camerunensis (Reichenow, 1892) - Mt Cameroon, in south-western Cameroon.
comitatus (Cassin, 1857) - Southern Cameroon and southern Central African Republic east to extreme south-western Sudan (Aloma Plateau) and south-western Uganda, south to Gabon, PRCongo, north-western Angola (Cabinda, Cuanza Norte), south-central and eastern DRCongo and Burundi.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Dusky-blue Flycatcher (Bradornis comitatus) - 10 files

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