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 LC    Grey Tit-Flycatcher* Id (Atlas):
    Fraseria plumbea

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Gray Tit-Flycatcher, Fan-tailed Flycatcher, Lead-colored Flycatcher, Lead-coloured Flycatcher

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
13 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1858)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry forest, dry savanna, arable land, plantations.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (46)...)

 
Grey Tit-Flycatcher (Myioparus plumbeus) [XC307191]
     by Peter Boesman from Bushwillow Estate, Vaalkop Dam Nature Reserve, near Beestekraal, North West, South Africa (call, song)

 
Grey Tit-Flycatcher (Myioparus plumbeus) [XC45754]
     by Josh Engel from Ashanti Forest Region, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
Proposed subspecies grandior (from south-western Zambia) considered indistinguishable from catoleucus.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • plumbeus (Hartlaub, 1858)   -  Senegal and Gambia, south-western Mali, Guinea (and possibly Guinea-Bissau), Sierra Leone and Liberia (at least coastal regions) east to Cameroon, southern Chad, western and central Central African Republic, southern Sudan and south-western Ethiopia, south to Gabon, western and south-western PRCongo, central and eastern DRCongo, western Uganda, western Kenya and north-western Tanzania (south to Biharamulo and Kibondo).
  • orientalis (Reichenow & Neumann, 1895)   -  South-eastern Kenya and eastern Tanzania south to southern Malawi, north, eastern and south-eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and north-eastern South Africa (eastern Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal).
  • catoleucus (Reichenow, 1900)   -  Western and north-eastern Angola and from south-eastern DRCongo (Katanga), northern Malawi and south-eastern Tanzania (Sumbawanga to Iringa and Dodoma) south to north-eastern Namibia (Caprivi), Botswana, western and central Zimbabwe and north-eastern South Africa (western Limpopo, Gauteng and North West provinces).



References
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Files:
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