Flycatcher ID help

Hello Joseph, The first of your pics is remarkably good for a hand-held digiscope setup. Martin is correct – the lack of pale lores and the even length rectrices make it a Leaden Flycatcher – Broad -bills have graduated tail feathers and pale lores. The heavily tumoured gape make it a very young bird. An ideal diagnostic picture would have been with the bird front-on and we would have seen the central rectrices which are all white in the Broad-billed. There’s a good range of pictures dealing with this issue on my website – www.graemechapman.com.au Cheers Graeme Chapman


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