#1237 · 🐦 birds

Semicollared Flycatcher

🇳🇱 Balkanvliegenvanger ·Ficedula semitorquata

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

what is it?

The semicollared flycatcher ( Ficedula semitorquata ) 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 the southeastern corner of Europe, the Middle East and southwestern Asia. It is migratory, wintering in Central and Eastern Africa. It is a rare vagrant in western Europe. Tracking studies using geolocators have revealed that weather conditions during spring migration can have a large impact on the...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 452iNaturalist observations
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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
452 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Alexander von Homeyer in 1885 (141 years ago).