African Dusky Flycatcher

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Muscicapidae

Genus

Muscicapa

eBird Code

afdfly1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (10)

• Muscicapa adusta adusta

  southern and eastern South Africa (southern Western Cape northward and eastward, inland from the range of fuscula, to Mpumalanga and eastern Limpopo) and western Eswatini; partially migratory, some nonbreeders to southern Mozambique

• Muscicapa adusta fuelleborni

  highlands of southern and central Tanzania

• Muscicapa adusta fuscula

  South Africa (coastal Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal) and eastern Eswatini; partially migratory, some nonbreeders to southern Mozambique

• Muscicapa adusta marsabit

  northern Kenya (Mount Marsabit region)

• Muscicapa adusta mesica

  Zimbabwe (except for eastern highlands)

• Muscicapa adusta minima

  highlands of Eritrea and northeastern Ethiopia

• Muscicapa adusta murina

  mountains of southeastern Kenya (Taita Hills) to northwestern Tanzania

• Muscicapa adusta poensis

  highlands of Cameroon; Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)

• Muscicapa adusta pumila

  Cameroon and northwestern Central African Republic; southern South Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Rwanda, western Burundi, western Kenya, and northern Tanzania

• Muscicapa adusta subadusta

  Angola to southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northwestern Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique