Albania (B), Algeria, Armenia (B), Austria (B), Belarus (B), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B) (P), Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B), Cyprus (P), Czech Republic (B), Denmark (P), Egypt, France (B) (P), Georgia (B), Germany (B) (P), Ghana, Greece (P), Hungary (B), Iraq (P), Israel, Italy (B) (P), Jordan (P), Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Lithuania (B), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Malawi, Mali, Malta, Moldova [Republic of] (B), Montenegro (B), Namibia, Nigeria, Poland (B), Romania (B) (P), Russia (European) (B), Rwanda, Serbia (B), Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (B), Slovenia (B), South Africa, Sudan, Sweden (B), Switzerland (B), Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan (B), Uganda, Ukraine (B), Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Angola, Bahrain, Belgium, Finland, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, Niger, Norway, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania [United Republic of], United Kingdom.
Breeds south-eastern Sweden (mainly Gotland and Öland), and from eastern France and southern Germany east to central European Russia (Moscow) and Ukraine, south to Italy, Sicily and northern Macedonia. Non-breeding south-central and southern Africa.
 
Population
Estimated population is 4,200,000 - 7,200,000 (2010).
Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) [XC688720]
by Romuald Mikusek from Stoki Poloniny Wetlinskiej, Gmina Cisna, Powiat bieszczadzki, Podkarpackie, Poland (song)
Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) [XC411269]
by Romuald Mikusek from Knyszyn Forest (near Kopna G\u00f3ra), Podlaskie, Poland (call, song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Often regarded as conspecific with Semi-collared Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata) but differences in ecology and morphology suggest that treatment as separate species is more appropriate. Hybridizes with European Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) in areas of sympatry in central and eastern Europe.