#0929 · 🐦 birds

Collared Flycatcher

🇳🇱 Withalsvliegenvanger ·Ficedula albicollis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © ruzovdmitry · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Photo Nature · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Frank Vassen · CC BY 4.0
4. © Vyacheslav Luzanov · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Olesya Deineko · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
7. FCQR+FMW, Hillah, Babylon Governorate, Iraq:© Ameen · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Γαύδος, Γαύδος, Κρήτη, GR:© Valia Pavlou · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Nizhniy Novgorod gorsovet, RU-NZ, RU:© Puzankov Aleksei · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Αντικύθηρα, Αλεβιζιανά, Πειραιάς, GR:© Valia Pavlou · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The collared flycatcher ( Ficedula albicollis ) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers. It breeds in southeast Europe (isolated populations are present in the islands of Gotland and Öland in the Baltic Sea, Sweden) and Eastern France to the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine and is migratory, wintering in sub Sahara Africa. It is a rare vagrant in western Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,602iNaturalist observations
weight 1.6 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).