Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)
Swamp Flycatcher (Muscicapa aquatica) - HBW 11, p. 120
French: Gobemouche des marais
German: Sumpfschnäpper
Spanish: Papamoscas Palustre
Other common names: Swamp Alseonax
Taxonomy: Muscicapa aquatica Heuglin, 1864, Wau, Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan.
Putative race ruandae (described from Uganda) is slightly longer-winged than infulata but otherwise inseparable; more appropriately synonymized with infulata. Four subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- aquatica Heuglin, 1864 - extreme S Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, S & E Mali, SE Burkina Faso, C & E Ivory Coast and C & E Ghana E to Nigeria (except S and extreme N), N Cameroon, S Chad, N Central African Republic, SW Sudan and N DRCongo (Ubangui).
- infulata Hartlaub, 1881 - SE Sudan, NE DRCongo (including R Lualaba from Kasongo to Mwanza), Uganda (except Karamoja), Rwanda, W Burundi, W Kenya, NW Tanzania and NE Zambia.
- lualabae (Chapin, 1932) - SE DRCongo (upper Lualaba lakes, in Katanga).
- grimwoodi Chapin, 1952 - S Zambia (L Suye, Lukanga Swamp).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A full-grown chick on a roof, calling Locality Mweya Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp infulata)
Josep del Hoyo 4 September 2006 4 years ago 32 sec 4.7 -
A bird on a branch Locality Mweya Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp infulata)
Josep del Hoyo 4 September 2006 4 years ago 26 sec 4.6 -
A bird and then two, at night, catching insects attracted by the light Locality Mweya Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp infulata)
Josep del Hoyo 4 September 2006 4 years ago 33 sec 4.6 -
A bird singing several times. Locality Mweya, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp infulata)
Eldert Groenewoud 1 March 2008 3 years ago 33 sec 4.5 -
immature and adult perching Locality Janjanbureh (Georgetown), Central River Division, The Gambia (ssp aquatica)
Daniêl Jimenez 27 December 2011 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 23 sec 4.2 -
A bird changing perches in a papyrus swamp Locality Rubondo, Uganda (ssp infulata)
Josep del Hoyo 11 September 2006 4 years ago 30 sec 4.1
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Swamp Flycatcher (Muscicapa aquatica)
Locality Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
Kilian Wasmer 6 February 2008 37 weeks ago 4 -
Perched
Locality Kigali Province, Rwanda
Jason Anderson 27 March 2010 1 year ago 3.2 -
A Swamp Flycatcher perches alert for unsuspecting quarry
Locality Akagera National Park, East Province, Rwanda (ssp infulata)
Christian Boix Hinzen 9 August 2009 2 years ago 2
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