White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
Adult of M. f. fischeri
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Melaenornis
Species:	M. fischeri
Binomial name
Melaenornis fischeri Reichenow, 1884
Synonyms
Dioptrornis fischeri

Photographed at Bwindi NP, Uganda

The White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher, Melaenornis fischeri , is a small passerine bird of the genus Melaenornis in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

It is native to the African highlands from Ethiopia and Kenya through East Africa to eastern Zaire and Malawi. In Kenya it is mostly absent from the east and the north of the country. It is a highland bird that is common in wooded habitats, including gardens.

It is a very distinctive bird normally seen singly or in pairs. White-eyed Slaty Flycatchers are frequently spotted either hawking for insects or taking them from the ground. They perch with an upright pose on branches, stumps, signposts.

The binomial commemorates the German explorer Gustav Adolf Fischer.

References

• BirdLife International (2004). Dioptrornis fischeri. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 05 May 2007. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
• http://www.kenyabirds.org.uk/slaty.htm

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