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 LC    Semicollared Flycatcher* Id (Atlas):
    Ficedula semitorquata

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Semi-collared Flycatcher, Half-collared Flycatcher, Eastern Collared Flycatcher, Semicollared Flycatcher

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Homeyer, 1885)

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.

Range (Guide)
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.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (37)...)

 
Semicollared Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata) [XC480549]
     by Tassos Sakoulis from Sym, Astara, Azerbaijan (call)

 
Semicollared Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata) [XC365006]
     by Samuel Odrzykoski from Tatkovets, Dyulevo, Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria (call, song)

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.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Semicollared Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata) - 10 files


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