Pale flycatcher

The pale flycatcher (Agricola pallidus) is a passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Pale flycatcher
in Kenya
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Agricola
Species:	A. pallidus
Binomial name
Agricola pallidus (von Müller, 1851) [2]
Synonyms
Musicapa pallida (protonym) Melaenornis pallidus Bradornis pallidus

Taxonomy

The pale flycatcher was previously placed in the genus Bradornis but was moved to Melaenornis based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010.^[3] It was subsequently moved to the genus Agricola based on a study published in 2023.^[4][5]

Lake Navasha Country Club - Kenya

Range

It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.^[1]

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.^[1]