White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

Fascinating facts about the White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

• A German explorer’s surname lives on in the bird’s scientific name, Melaenornis fischeri, honoring Gustav Adolf Fischer.
• This tiny flycatcher inhabits the highlands of Africa, stretching from Ethiopia and Kenya down through Rwanda, eastern Zaire, and into Malawi.
• One subspecies, M. f. toruensis, is found in Rwanda and Burundi and can be told apart by its barely visible eye-ring.

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About the White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

The white-eyed slaty flycatcher (Melaenornis fischeri) is a small passerine of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is native to the African highlands from Ethiopia and Kenya through Rwanda to eastern Zaire and Malawi. The subspecies M. f. toruensis occurs in Rwanda and Burundi and has an inconspicuous eye-ring.

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