Pale Flycatcher

Agricola pallidus

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Agricola
eBird Code
palfly2

Subspecies (12)

  • Agricola pallidus bafirawari

    southern Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya

  • Agricola pallidus bowdleri

    Eritrea to central Ethiopia

  • Agricola pallidus divisus

    southeastern Zambia, southern Malawi, and Mozambique to northeastern South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga), and Eswatini

  • Agricola pallidus duyerali

    northeastern Ethiopia (Duyer Ali) to central Somalia (El Bur)

  • Agricola pallidus erlangeri

    southern Somalia (Bardera and Serenli to Hanole)

  • Agricola pallidus griseus

    southeastern Kenya to central Tanzania, eastern Zambia, eastern Zimbabwe, and northern Malawi

  • Agricola pallidus modestus

    Guinea to southeastern Mali and Central African Republic

  • Agricola pallidus murinus

    Gabon eastward to southern South Sudan and western and southern Kenya, southward to Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia

  • Agricola pallidus pallidus

    Senegambia to South Sudan and western Ethiopia; also northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, possibly this subspecies (or parvus?)

  • Agricola pallidus parvus

    eastern South Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, and northwestern Uganda

  • Agricola pallidus sibilans

    southern Mozambique (south of Sul do Save) and northeastern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)

  • Agricola pallidus subalaris

    coastal eastern Kenya to northeastern Tanzania

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.