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 LC    Ussher's Flycatcher* Id (Atlas):
    Bradornis ussheri

Description (10)
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Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe, 1871)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical and tropical dry forest and shrubland, dry savanna, mangroves.

Range (Guide)
Côte dIvoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone (except north-west), north-west, south-western and south-eastern Guinea, Liberia, southern Ivory Coast, southern and south-western Ghana (east to Aburi), southern Togo and southern Nigeria (mouth of R Benin).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

 
Ussher's Flycatcher (Muscicapa ussheri) [XC301496]
     by Bram Vogels from New Eddubiase Forest South entrance, Ghana (call, calls)

 
Ussher's Flycatcher (Muscicapa ussheri) [XC719317]
     by id from Abrafo Forest, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Sooty Flycatcher (Bradornis fuliginosus), with which it is sometimes united in genus Artomyias on basis of long wings and short legs.


References
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Files:
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