Swamp Alseonax (Muscicapa aquatica)

Other Names (World)
Swamp Flycatcher, Swamp Alseonax

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Heuglin, 1864

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (28)...)

Swamp Flycatcher (Muscicapa aquatica) [XC46228]
by Peter Boesman from Mole National Park, Ghana (song)

Swamp Flycatcher (Muscicapa aquatica) [XC690423]
by Hans Matheve from Mole National Park, Ghana (song)

Subspecies
Putative subspecies ruandae (described from Uganda) is slightly longer-winged than infulata but otherwise inseparable. More appropriately synonymized with infulata.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

aquatica Heuglin, 1864 - Extreme southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, southern and eastern Mali, south-eastern Burkina Faso, central and eastern Ivory Coast and central and eastern Ghana east to Nigeria (except southern and extreme north), northern Cameroon, southern Chad, northern Central African Republic, south-western Sudan and northern DRCongo (Ubangui).
infulata Hartlaub, 1881 - South-eastern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo (including R Lualaba from Kasongo to Mwanza), Uganda (except Karamoja), Rwanda, western Burundi, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia.
lualabae (Chapin, 1932) - South-eastern DRCongo (upper Lualaba lakes, in Katanga).
grimwoodi Chapin, 1952 - Southern Zambia (L Suye, Lukanga Swamp).

References
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Files:

JPG files for Swamp Alseonax (Muscicapa aquatica) - 10 files

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