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).
 
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) [XC482910]
by Nikolay Sariev from Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia (alarm call, call)
Semicollared Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata) [XC166751]
by Nikolay Sariev from Grancharovo, Dulovo, Silistra, Bulgaria (call)
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.